[AG-TECH] Fwd: seating at an AGN

[Rick Stevens]

Robert we have tried experiments at ANL with AG screens in both the front 
of the room *and* behind the local audience
so the presenter would see remote audience members *behind* the local 
audience, but some views could be
in the front of the room for the local audience to see remote members 
etc.  this works reasonably well, though
it does have the problem of needing screens in front and back.


At 11:49 AM 10/29/2002 -0600, Barbara A. Kucera wrote:
>Hi Robert,
>
>At NCSA, one of our AG nodes originally had four small tables arranged 
>together into a rectangle because the space was also used as a conference 
>room.  As a result of that configuration, most of the people had to turn 
>their head to see the screen and it was not an ideal situation, but it was 
>workable.  Now we have a sofa with a coffee table at the front.  A 
>classroom type setup (behind the sofa facing the screen) consists of a 
>trapezoidal-shaped table and behind that a regular table.  The room has 
>wireless access for our laptops.  This config works much better; but if 
>it's a long meeting, sitting on the sofa makes my neck ache because the 
>sofa is pretty close to the screen wall and one has to look up all the time.
>
>I hope this is helpful.
>
>Barbara
>------------
>
>At 04:25 PM 10/28/2002 -0600, Robert Olson wrote:
>
>>>From: Robert B Heckendorn <heckendo at cs.uidaho.edu>
>>>To: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>>>Subject: seating at an AGN
>>>Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:00:21 -0800 (PST)
>>>Reply-To: Robert Heckendorn <heckendo at cs.uidaho.edu>
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>>>Most AGNs I see have people behind tables facing the screen.  There is
>>>interest in continuing to use the conference table that was in that
>>>room.  However, this would put most people facing perpendicular to the
>>>screen.  Is that just a terrible idea or will that be an acceptable
>>>arrangement?
>>>
>>>thanks for any advice,
>>>
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