Portuguese participation in the RACE TeleCommunity Project

Nelson Pacheco da Rocha; Ernesto Afonso; Pedro Breda; Manuel Machado; Leonor Moniz Pereira; Clara Cidade

Nelson Pacheco da Rocha DETUA
Ernesto Afonso DETUA
Pedro Breda DETUA
Manuel Machado DETUA
Leonor Moniz Pereira FMH
Clara Cidade TLP

Keywords: RACE, TeleCommunity Project, disabled people

Abstract

The TeleCommunity project in the context of RACE program is a set of Advanced Communications Experiments that aim to study the implementation of advanced communications services for disabled people. The paper presents the support services and the terminal equipment developed for the Portuguese experiment within the TeleCommunity Project. The services (Learning and Training, Remote Delivery ofExpertise, Collaborative Decision Making and InterpersonalCommunication) have been designed to exploit the potentialof ISDN to support and improve the professional care ofdisabled people, namely elderly, visual and mental impaired. The terminal equipment are modular multimedia terminals, based in personal computers with video codecs, that presentan integrated capability to set-up, simultaneously, point-topoint videophony and data connections. Various terminalshave been distributed among several Institutions, which aremajor Portuguese social care Institutions.