cific Basin. It specializes in care of high-risk pregnancies. Unfortunately, the large coverage area, the distance between the islands, and the limited number of specialist medical personnel have been obstacles to providing fast access to the specialized care these patients require. Consequently, the medical staff has tolerated expensive and time-consuming travel between islands and locations to examine and meet with patients and colleagues. To transcend this circumstance, Kapi' olani Medical Center deployed the first tele- ultrasound network in Hawaii, which included the Tandberg HCS III product line. Eventually, the network will comprise ten sites on four islands with a hub site in the FDC in urban Honolulu. The application required retrofitting existing ultrasound machines to enable perinatologists to see a fetus remotely with video monitors. Perinatologists can subsequently provide advice and care to patients, those patients' regular obstetricians, radiologists, and sonographers 24x7. With the new system, they provide ready access to the specialized services that maternity patients require. A grant from the US Department of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program, support from Kapi' olani Health, and the Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation funded the $1.8 million project. More than 6,000 health problems can be detected prenatally; ultrasound is a primary detection tool. In a high-risk pregnancy, monitoring a fetus by ultrasound can be particularly important. The goal of the Fetal Tele-Ultrasound Project is to extend patients' access to this critical pre-natal care. XEROX PARC EXPERIMENT: MEDIA SPACES According to Sara Bly, Steve Harrison and Susan Irwin, the authors of Media Spaces: Bringing People Together in a Video, Audio and Computing Environment, a media space is a "technologically created environment" that emerges from a "concern for both the social and technical practices of collaborative work and from an effort to support those practices." In the mid-1980s, XEROX PARC's System Concepts Laborator