A Comparison of synchronous and virtual legislative session groups faced with an idea generation task

作者：Aiken M^*; Vanjani M

来源：Information & Management, 1997, 33(1): 25-31.

DOI：10.1016/S0378-7206(97)00034-7

• electronic meetings
• virtual meetings
• group decision support systems
• brainstorming
• brainwriting

An experiment was conducted with groups of about eight people in face-to-face and geographically-distributed electronic meeting environments. While similar studies have focused on the behavior of group members working together in a single room or working individually in different rooms (a nominal group), this research looks at a hybrid environment in which part of a group is working in one room and another part is working simultaneously in a different room that is linked via a local area network, both parts forming a virtual group. Experimental results showed that such groups generated significantly more unique, quality comments than did face-to-face groups, and that participants were significantly more satisfied with that type of meeting. These and other results indicate that groups may be able to meet effectively when distributed geographically.

• 出版日期1997-11-7