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A Comparison of Face-to-Face and Distributed PresentationsEllen A. Isaacs, Trevor Morris, Thomas K. Rodriguez, and John C. Tang SunSoft, Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043 USAellen.isaacs@sun.com; trevor.morris@sun.com; tom.rodriguez@eng.sun.com john.tang@eng.sun.com Reference: Isaacs, E.A., Morris, T., Rodriguez, T.K., & Tang. J.C. (1994). A Comparison of Face-to-Face and Distributed Presentations, Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Denver, CO: ACM Press, 354-361.
(c) 1994 Association for Computing Machinery.
AbstractAs organizations become distributed across multiple sites, they are looking to technology to help support enterprise-wide communication and training to distant locations. We developed an application called Forum that broadcasts live video, audio and slides from a speaker to distributed audiences at their computer desktops. We studied how distributed presentations over Forum differed from talks given in face-to-face settings. We found that Forum attracted larger audience, but the quality of interaction was perceived to be lower. Forum appeared to provide more flexible and effective use of slides and other visual materials. On the whole, audiences preferred to watch talks over Forum but speakers preferred to give talks in a local setting. The study raises issues about the design of this technology and how it might be used to its best advantage.Keywords: Distributed presentations, distance learning, networks and communication, remote collaboration, video conferencing, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
