14.5 Face to Face: Same Place, Same Time

• Shared display from lecturer workstation
• Audience response units
• Text-submission workstations
• Brainstorming, voting, and ranking. Benefits of electronic meeting systems:
• Parallel communication promotes broader input into the meeting process and reduces the chance that a few people dominate the meeting.
• Anonymity mitigates evaluation apprehension and conformance pressure, so that issues are discussed more candidly.
• The group memory constructed by participants enables them to pause and reflect on information and opinions of others during the meeting and serves as a permanent record of what occurred.
• Process structure helps focus the group on key issues and discourages irrelevant digressions and unproductive behaviors.
• Task support and structure provides information and approaches to analyze it.
• File sharing
• Shared workspace
• Group activities