Creating Web-based Laboratories

✍ Scribed by C.C. Ko PhD, Ben M. Chen PhD, Jianping Chen PhD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Remote web-based experimentation, enabling students and researchers to access the laboratory anytime via the Internet, is becoming an increasingly attractive way to complement or even replace traditional laboratory sessions. Placing a video camera & microphone before the equipment and apparatus to capture what is actually happening in the laboratory allows the images and audio data to be streamed to the client side. Researchers in different countries can share equipment and conduct research cooperatively and remotely. The authors summarise their research and discuss the development of the 5 web-based laboratories launched from the National University of Singapore. The principles, structure, and technologies required for the creation of Internet remote experimentation systems are discussed with particular emphasis on the integration of hardware and software systems. Also highlighted is the design and development of interfaces and components for use in typical web-based laboratories or similar web-control applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-20
Server and Client....Pages 21-37
Client GUI Design....Pages 39-50
Components....Pages 51-69
Panels....Pages 71-96
Interface Cards....Pages 97-118
Audio and Video....Pages 119-146
Controlling Physical Systems....Pages 147-166
Multicast Design....Pages 167-182
An Implementation Example....Pages 183-200

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Systems and Communication Service; Multimedia Information Systems; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems