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Is that where they work?

Most congresses and other meetings in Asia-Pacific are held in hotel ballrooms and other multi-purpose rooms which do not have built-in interpretation booths. Therefore, interpreters usually work in mobile booths. A recent scientific study on work-related stress among interpreters found that the most common complaint they had about mobile booths is that they did not provide enough fresh air. The amount of air (oxygen) in a booth depends on the size and on ventilation. These and other characteristics of mobile booths are prescribed by ISO standard No. 4043.

CIAP will be happy to send you the ISO standards for mobile and for built-in booths on request. Just send a message to info@ciap.net.

Modern ISO 4043 mobile booths provided by HOSO Service in Japan,
in use at a conference in Yokohama, November 2001. In the booth,
Andrea S. Bateman and Manuel Pastor, CIAP associates.