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Specialist Task Force 284:

Human related technical guidelines for real-time person-to-person communication services

Who we are:

Team Leader : Bjorn Hestnes 
Team Members : Carl Aaby
Peter Brooks
Svein Heiestad

What we do :

The activity is structured around two existing ETSI HF Work items from the ETSI Work Programme:

  • DTR/HF-00061: ‘Human Factors Guidelines for Real-time Person-to-Person Communication Services: Requirements for data on new service prescriptions, technical parameters and communication situations’, has produced requirements for future data documented as an ETSI Technical Report (ETSI TR)
  • DEG/HF-00062: ‘Human Factors of Real-time Person-to-Person Communication Services: Technical guidelines’, has produced an ETSI Guide (ETSI EG) and is developing a Web-based tutorial system.

The three main deliverables are:

Web-based tutorial system

An evaluation version of the web-based system is available for review here (visit the web-based system).

The web-based tutorial system is intended to be appropriate for key industry representatives. These include strategic planners, network planners, market analysts and developers, sales persons, customer support and conference meeting facilitators. Their requirements for support were identified in case studies.

Guidelines of existing data documented as an ETSI Guide

The work is based on the output of the EC IST Project 11577 (Eye-2-Eye: Fitness-for-Purpose of Person-Person Communication Technologies) and the recommendations from ETSI-TC-HF Work Item DTR/HF-00050 (TR 102 274: ‘Human Factors Guidelines for Real-time Person-Person Communication Services’).

The EG was published in November 2006

Requirements for future data documented as an ETSI Technical Report

The consultation work of the STF is also identifying the priorities for new guideline data as the technology field continues to expand and evolve. Emphasis is given to features of new service prescriptions, technical parameters and communication situations for fixed and mobile broadband networks. In particular the new requirement for Quality of Experience (QoE) on 3G mobile systems will be addressed.

The TR was published in November 2006

Read our Terms of Reference

Why we do it:

The initiative focuses on real-time communication services for person-to-person interaction at distance (e.g., multimedia conferencing, avatar telephony). It primarily addresses the Broadband eEurope 2005 Action Plan objective but real-time communication service development concerns e-government, e-learning, e-health and a dynamic business environment. It directly promotes the development, analysis and dissemination of good practices.

Time plan for the work:

We intend to complete our work in February 2007.

How to contact us:

If you would like more information, please contact the STF Leader: bjorn-olav.hestnes@telenor.com

Note: this information is based upon STF working assumptions.
The views expressed do not necessarily represent the position of ETSI in this context.

Last updated: 2010-02-18 10:21:47