Abstract
In the field of sports medicine, it is not always possible for team physicians or physiotherapists to accompany the team to competitions or training camps. In cases such as these, it is desirable to have a collaboration system that enables the team physicians or physiotherapists to respond from a distance to the players' or the team's needs with regard to conditioning or to injuries and other disorders. We constructed a sports medicine support system using “Net Office HIKARI ” -a collaboration system that is currently in the process of research and development at NTT- and conducted evaluation tests using the Internet. Based on the results of these tests, we reached the following conclusions: (1) In PHS and similar mobile environments, communications can be achieved using 80×64 dot images at a speed of about two frames per second, and consultations are possible assuming a simple interview scenario. (2) Using a B-flets or similar broadband line, communications can be achieved using 320×256 dot images at a speed of about ten frames per second, and consultations are possible even assuming that the two parties are meeting for the first time.
