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From: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Audio & Video Needed for Group Support?
Message-ID: <633@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 25 Jan 91 00:14:02 GMT
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lippin@oreo.berkeley.edu (The Apathist) writes:

>more effective than large lectures.  And getting the reactions of a
>test reader is a very good way to find the confusing spots in a paper.
>(And a sense of confusion is *very* difficult to gauge through email.)

One way that I encourage the groupware concept is when I ask several
people to test or proof material that I have developed.  The way that
this is accomplished is to get these people together and get them to go
through the material while I am present.  This is not using computers
as a facilitator of the groupware process.  The
interactions that take place are both numerous and complex.  One thing
that I would like computer groupware to capture is this richness of
interaction and information.  At the present time I feel that the
computer environment needs to start at providing a method of
transmitting the various signal sources such as audio and video.  

Just some more $.25 worth.

Kevin
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