Mediated Person-to-Person(s) Communication Model

As people change from face-to-face communication to mediated communication the form of representation changes. Distortion of the message in face-to-face communication is something we have learned to live with and control to some extent by the way we represent ourselves, and our message, to the outside world. When the message is being mediated and represented to the recipient by a communications device, we want the same control. Without sense of such control, people may feel out of control of the message they are transmitting. The person-to-person(s) communication model describes the communication process and helps designers in identifying the different elements causing distortion of the message. UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE HYPERMEDIA LABORATORY FiTV: MEDIATED PERSON-TO-PERSON(S) COMMUNICATION MODEL 3