Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!decvax.dec.com!zinn!siia!drd From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: Audio & Video Needed for Group Support? Message-ID: <1991Feb1.181726.17979@siia.mv.com> Date: 1 Feb 91 18:17:26 GMT References: <20965@crg5.UUCP> <616@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <20995@crg5.UUCP> <1991Jan23.061359.27341@agate.berkeley.edu> <633@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Organization: Software Innovations, Inc. Lines: 31 In <633@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes: ..description of groupware "in person" elided.. > 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. I think the management of the interaction is more important, IMHO. As humans in the real world we are +-------------------------------------- continuously bombarded by sensory | As to the complexity of the world: input--the world is a complicated | I recently attended a conference place. | on virtual reality and cyberspace, | and one of the speakers noted that, Our great skill in navigating it | in his experience, he appreciated is that our perceptual systems do | reality much more after spending considerable filtering below the | time in a virtual world. It's level of consciousness. | consistent, doesn't have video | glitches, and there's always something Analogously, I think groupware | behind every door! needs to give us a way to manage +--------------------------------------- the complexity. Why go to all the expense and trouble just to recreate the chaos and inefficiency of most meetings? David Dick Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]