Docsity
Docsity
Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity

Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan

Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips
Sell on Docsity
Sell on Docsity
Docsity AI
Docsity AI
Log inSign up

Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity

Find documents

Prepare for your exams with the study notes shared by other students like you on Docsity

Search for your university

Find the specific documents for your university's exams

Docsity AINEW

Summarize your documents, ask them questions, convert them into quizzes and concept maps

Explore questions

Clear up your doubts by reading the answers to questions asked by your fellow students

Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan

Share documents
download point icon20 Points

For each uploaded document

Answer questions
download point icon5 Points

For each given answer (max 1 per day)

All the ways to get free points
Get points immediately

Choose a premium plan with all the points you need

Study Opportunities

Choose your next study program

Get in touch with the best universities in the world. Search through thousands of universities and official partners

Community

Ask the community

Ask the community for help and clear up your study doubts

Free resources

Our save-the-student-ebooks!

Download our free guides on studying techniques, anxiety management strategies, and thesis advice from Docsity tutors

Pros and Cons of Video Conferencing vs. Text-Based Communication for Collaboration, Papers of Computer Science

University of Illinois - Urbana-ChampaignComputer Science

The use of video conferencing and text-based communication for collaboration, discussing their advantages and disadvantages. Topics include non-verbal communication, turn-taking, back channels, and attention and focus. The authors of the documents express their opinions on the effectiveness of these communication methods and provide insights into their unique features.

Typology: Papers

Pre 2010

Uploaded on 03/10/2009

koofers-user-n20
koofers-user-n20 🇺🇸

9 documents

1 / 5

Toggle sidebar

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

bg1
Michael Barker – mbarker2
CS 598 KGK – 1/23/08
What Video Can and Can’t do for Collaboration
by Isaacs, E. and Tang, J.
Video is the natural progression from audio in respect to collaboration over
distances. Before video conferencing there would be audio conferencing
which has very apparent differences between an in person conversation.
Although video has many advantages over the audio, it still lacks in some
respect to in person conversations.
I thought that this paper did a pretty good job of addressing many issues
that arise in using video for collaborative purposes. The core advantage that
video allows over audio only is the transmission of non verbal information,
which is very important in human communication. One of the examples that
was given, which I think is an important one, is the ability to take turns
speaking. The paper made it seem that the turn taking ability of people
using the video conferencing system was comparable to face to face
interactions. This is an important aspect of collaboration and it is interesting
that video conferencing works well for it.
Other aspects of video conferencing that lack in comparison with face to face
interactions are also very important. The paper hit on almost all of the ones
that I can think of, pointing, use of physical objects, pointing, and having
side conversations. One aspect that isn’t lacking but a negative side effect of
the use of video would also have to be multi tasking, which I don’t believe
was mentioned in the paper. It is much easier for someone to be working on
something else while doing a video conference or to just get up and leave
during a video conference is much easier. There is also another aspect which
I think is important is the psychological affect of having everyone staring at
you at all times, whether or not you are talking. I think that it can make
people uncomfortable to have people constantly staring at you, even though
they might not be. This pertains to a difficulty that relates to video
conferencing, which unless you are having a two person conference call, it is
hard to tell when someone is actually looking at you and when they are not.
pf3
pf4
pf5

Partial preview of the text

Download Pros and Cons of Video Conferencing vs. Text-Based Communication for Collaboration and more Papers Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity!

CS 598 KGK – 1/23/

What Video Can and Can’t do for Collaboration

by Isaacs, E. and Tang, J.

Video is the natural progression from audio in respect to collaboration over distances. Before video conferencing there would be audio conferencing which has very apparent differences between an in person conversation. Although video has many advantages over the audio, it still lacks in some respect to in person conversations.

I thought that this paper did a pretty good job of addressing many issues that arise in using video for collaborative purposes. The core advantage that video allows over audio only is the transmission of non verbal information, which is very important in human communication. One of the examples that was given, which I think is an important one, is the ability to take turns speaking. The paper made it seem that the turn taking ability of people using the video conferencing system was comparable to face to face interactions. This is an important aspect of collaboration and it is interesting that video conferencing works well for it.

Other aspects of video conferencing that lack in comparison with face to face interactions are also very important. The paper hit on almost all of the ones that I can think of, pointing, use of physical objects, pointing, and having side conversations. One aspect that isn’t lacking but a negative side effect of the use of video would also have to be multi tasking, which I don’t believe was mentioned in the paper. It is much easier for someone to be working on something else while doing a video conference or to just get up and leave during a video conference is much easier. There is also another aspect which I think is important is the psychological affect of having everyone staring at you at all times, whether or not you are talking. I think that it can make people uncomfortable to have people constantly staring at you, even though they might not be. This pertains to a difficulty that relates to video conferencing, which unless you are having a two person conference call, it is hard to tell when someone is actually looking at you and when they are not.

CS 598 KGK – 1/23/

I thought that this article did a great job of pointing out the pros and cons associated with video conferencing, but I was disappointed with the solutions that they came up with. They had a section about designing for video conferencing but they didn’t really address the individual issues that video collaboration lacks.

CS 598 KGK – 1/23/

The issue with back channels is important to consider when looking into text based communication. This is because text based communication lacks many of the back channels, at least the physical ones. Although text communication does provide the ability for some examples of back channels, such as responding with “yea” or “uh huh” or something to that effect, there is not many ways in which to show for instance nodding. I guess text based communication in some video games could take into consideration these back channels, for example many RPG type games allow for emotes to be shown, usually they result in text that would look something like this: nods and would appear in a different color that wouldn’t take focus away from the conversation. This idea is close, but it’s not quite the same as the real life version of it.

CS 598 KGK – 1/23/

Visiphone

by Donath, Karahalios, and Viegas

I think that one of the interesting aspects of this paper comes from the unexpected side effects or uses of the Visiphone that users came up with. Users thought that it would be a good tool to be used in therapy to show conversational dominance, which didn’t seem like it was a core drive in creating Visiphone.

One of the aspects of this paper that I didn’t like was that the way to use Visiphone wasn’t really described. I am curious about certain things, like how do you call someone, can you call anyone, can the Visiphone be turned off, are there features such as muting? All of these questions were not addressed in the paper. Although they aren’t the most important questions I was pretty confused as to how something simple, like calling a person, actually works with it.

Overall I really think that the idea is a very clever and elegant way of achieving a phone that can be used for long periods of time without feeling intrusive. I like the use of the orb because it not only draws attention but it has a cool new interesting look to it. The visualization is also a great idea because not only does it look cool, it is very easy to understand what it is for after just trying it out, I would imagine. I would think that after using it just once they would almost instantly understand all the aspects of the graphics, which is not a claim that can be made for many products. Some things that I think might be interesting add-on’s to it would be if it could recognize different voices and assign each different speaker a color, so instead of just on the receiving side or on the transmitting side having a color there would be more. I think with an addition like that, group talking could be better visualized.