Title :
On-line decision-making meetings in a virtual environment
Author :
Kakuta, Jun ; Yoshida, Atsuya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
The authors experimentally held discussions with small-group of members who were geographically distributed using the visual tele-computing software Fujitsu Habitat. In this paper, they compared and examined the differences among visual keyboard conferencing, text keyboard conferencing and face-to-face conferencing: (1) effects among different media on utterances of participants, (ii) ratings of communicative functions, and (iii) ratings of contributions to discussions
Keywords :
human factors; teleconferencing; virtual reality; Fujitsu Habitat; communicative functions; face to face discussion; human factors; online decision making; text keyboard conferencing; utterances; virtual reality; visual keyboard conferencing; visual teleconferencing; Decision making; Distributed computing; Electronic mail; Facsimile; Information technology; Keyboards; Layout; Telecommunication computing; Telephony; Virtual environment;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Communication, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0753-4
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.1992.253878
