Organizations search for effective ways working groups or teams can communicate. With the proliferation of computer mediated technology and the increasing channel richness provided by technology, organizations, as a result of technology, have reduced face-to-face meetings. This research focuses of the importance of media richness and the cohesion a group experiences by looking at eighty-seven 5...

For many years online text chat such as ICQ [1] has been used as a means of multi-user interaction. As higher bandwidth is available, multipoint videoconferencing systems such as NetMeeting [2] or CUseeMe [3] that allow people from different geographical locations to see and talk to each other are becoming popular. However, these videoconferencing systems lack the sense of immersion because eac...

as ICQ [1] has been used as a means of multiuser interaction. As higher bandwidth is available, multipoint videoconferencing systems such as NetMeeting [2] or CUseeMe [3] that allow people from different geographical locations to see and talk to each other are becoming popular. However, these videoconferencing systems lack the sense of immersion because each participant sees other participants ...

1 We define an intranet in the following way: (1) An intranet is a network based on the Internet protocol suite TCP/IP. It is thus capable of running common internet applications such as World Wide Web and MS NetMeeting. (2) It is a private network, owned by the organization that it serves and only accessible by permission. In general, all members of the organization have access to the intranet...

With the ever-growing Internet, distributed applications are gaining popularity. Going “online” to browse, to send/receive emails is an integral part of our daily lives. In fact, the majority of Internet users rely on email and web browsers as the de-facto tools for collaboration. Such popular tools, however, provide limited and inefficient mechanisms for collaboration, especially when several ...

Abstract: This article reports on three studies that involved undergraduate students collaboratively working on authentic discussion tasks in synchronous and asynchronous Computer Mediated Communication systems (Netmeeting, Belvédère, Allaire Forums). The purposes of the assignments were respectively to develop insight and understanding in a theoretical framework, to co-construct meaningful did...

In a remote computer-mediated collaboration, co-workers have a limited perception of each other: they loose the sense of immersion. To deal with this problem, some collaborative environments as NetMeeting [1] use videoconferencing. Leung [2] claims that these systems lack the sense of immersion because every participant sees others in separate windows and doesn't know who is acting. In order to...

15.1.1.1 Principal Focus. This chapter will focus essentially on asynchronous text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC). By this, we mean email, whether one-to-one or one-to-many, e-mail-based discussion lists, bulletin boards, computer conferencing environments, and the growing number of Web-mediated manifestations of these types of communication. As technologies change, the forms of CM...

Applet-Based Multimedia Telecollaboration: A Network-Centric Approach Shervin Shirmohammadi, Jauvane C. de Oliveira, and Nicolas D. Georganas Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa, Canada Abstract Real-time collaboration systems, in which participants share multimedia documents and applications in real time, have been...

remote collaboration, casual capture, imaging, scanners Sharing images or documents is a natural activity between people both at work and in their social life. Sharing between remotely-located people is now possible through one of the many remote collaborations tools available on the market. However, none of them was particularly designed with image sharing in mind. This short technical report ...