Uses

National Research and Education Networks like KAREN exist in more than 40 countries.

Internationally Research and Education networks have explored and proven new possibilities in many areas including:  

Education

  • Real-time, interactive, distance teaching

  • Virtual classrooms

Arts

  • Real-time international musical collaborations and recordings
  • Distance choreographic coaching for dance students  

Communications

  • Land to aircraft tele-conferencing  

Environment

  • Remote control of instruments for forest ecology
  • Real time video and data streams from sub-sea sensor networks

History

  • Distribution of rich media content between museums, libraries and archives
  • Internationally collaborative historical and archaeological research networks 

Medical

  • Biomedical tele-collaboration (3-D imaging for surgical planning and distance learning)
  • Anatomical and surgery simulation
  • Computer-aided surgery
  • Functional brain imagery for disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, attention deficit disorder and Parkinson’s disease
  • Distance diagnosis at emergency scenes

Engineering Research

  • Modelling of buildings, including 3D CAD and the effect of fire and streaming video of collaborative experiments (building research)

Humanities

  • Data mining of language banks for linguistics research

Science

  • Collaborative analysis of data from particle accelerators (particle physics)
  • Structure, function, dynamics and evolution of protein and protein complexes 

 

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