Nothing like face-to-face: this is how technology tries to emulate face-to-face meetings

By Crescencio Bravo and Ana Isabel Molina.

Around a table in a meeting room, several people work on the plans and documents of a project. They discuss and exchange information explicitly, talking and pointing to the materials. Also, implicitly, through his gestures, his facial expression and his gestures.

This face-to-face teamwork situation, rich in terms of the quantity and quality of interpersonal interaction, cannot always be carried out effectively. Sometimes not desirable for efficiency reasons [Keep reading]