On-line decision-making meetings in a virtual environment

摘要

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.