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It's All in the Words: Supporting Work Activites with Lightweight Tools

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1999

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Proceedings of the 1999 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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The development of tools to support synchronous communications between non-collocated colleagues has received considerable attention in recent years. Much of the work has focused on increasing a sense of co-presence between interlocutors by supporting aspects of face-to-face conversations that go beyond mere words (e.g. gaze, postural shifts). In this regard, a design goal for many environments is the provision of as much media-richness as possible to support non-collocated communication. In this paper we present results from our most recent interviews studying the use of a text-based virtual environment to support work collaborations. We describe how such an environment, though lacking almost all the visual and auditory cues known to be important in face-to-face conversation, has played an important role in day-to-day communication. We offer a set of characteristics we feel are important to the success of this text-only tool and discuss issues emerging from its long-term use.

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Churchill, Elizabeth F.; Bly, Sara (1999): It's All in the Words: Supporting Work Activites with Lightweight Tools. Proceedings of the 1999 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/320297.320302. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 40–49. Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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computer mediated communication, interviews, presence, virtual environmnets, distrubted callaboration, text-based communication

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10.1145/320297.320302

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https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4762

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