Towards multiscale communication systems
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Forty years after AT&T’s Picturephone, video is still mainly considered as a way to enhance audio communication in an attempt to reproduce face-to-face conditions. In a 1992 paper, Hollan and Stornetta argued that we should develop communication tools that go beyond being there. In this paper, I discuss two different interpretations of their analysis. I then propose the concept of multiscale communication system as an alternative approach for motivating further video-mediated communication research. The paper ends with a description of three systems that illustrate the concept.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006