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An Ecological Investigation Into The Effects Of Interface On Asynchronous Group Conversations, Peter Venero
An Ecological Investigation Into The Effects Of Interface On Asynchronous Group Conversations, Peter Venero
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Asynchronous group communication refers to the activity of multiple people communicating when they are separated by both time and space. Online groups (OG) and email are two settings that facilitate these interactions. While both of these settings accomplish this task, they do so in slightly different ways. Email organizes all of the posts by putting the new posts on the top of the display and the older posts towards the bottom. The OG interface uses a tree structure; putting the new posts in a subordinate post relationship to a previous post. How these two technologies present the posts to the …