Audio or video conferencing

1. How do you think groupware is likely to affect our lives in the future? Justify your answer with examples

2. How effective is the time/space matrix as a tool for classifying and analyzing groupware?

3. What is meant by the terms control and feedback and feedthrough in the classification by function framework?

(a) Low bandwidths and single media groupware systems reduce the transmission of back channels. How does this affect communication?

(b) Emoticons are used in text-based communication to provide information about the mood of the sender. Is there any need for such augmentation in audio or video conferencing? Justify your answer.