Video informal technology

This article examines in detail a single attempt to use video telephony for the type of informal communication that is common among people who are physically collocated. It presents an evaluation of a desktop video telephony system deployed in 1990. One can consider the evaluation reported here as a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Communications of the ACM 1993-01, Vol.36 (1), p.48-61
Hauptverfasser: Rice, Ronald E, Fish, Robert S, Krait, Robert E, Root, Robert E
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article examines in detail a single attempt to use video telephony for the type of informal communication that is common among people who are physically collocated. It presents an evaluation of a desktop video telephony system deployed in 1990. One can consider the evaluation reported here as a case study both in using video for spontaneous conversation and in applying social science theory and method to the task of system design and evaluation.
ISSN:0001-0782
DOI:10.1145/151233.151237