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From: szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Audio & Video Needed for Group Support?
Message-ID: <20995@crg5.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 11:11:12 GMT
References: <14533@uswat.UUCP> <20965@crg5.UUCP> <616@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Reply-To: szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <616@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes:
[wants to try multimedia groupware to develop multimedia course]

Good example!  Given that the product contains sound or video, 
groupware that manipulates these media might be useful for the
product developers.

This is quite distinct from using sound and video to communicate emotions
between workgroup participants.  Where the product involves emotions
(eg advertisements), groupware that communicates emotions might be useful.

Where the end product does not contain either emotions or sound/video
-- the large majority of technical work -- groupware that communicates
emotions, and for the most part sound/video capability, is not useful.


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Nick Szabo			szabo@sequent.com
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