Group Decision Making on Urban Planning Using Desktop Multimedia Conferencing

  • Authors:
  • Schahram Dustdar;Reinhold Huber

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Informatics Services (ZID), University of Art, Hauptplatz 8, A-4010 Linz, Austria. E-mail: dustdar@khsa.khs-linz.ac.at;Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis, University of Salzburg A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Recent developments on multimedia systems and networking technologyshow that using desktop multimedia conferencing for group decisionmaking on wide area networks such as the Internet is possible. Inthis paper we review the design, hardware and software requirementsand organizational issues in a desktop multimedia conferencingsystem. We draw on our experiences from multiple multimediaconferences on the Internet and in particular we focus on a casestudy on urban planning using desktop multimedia conferencing on theInternet. Further we discuss implications for further research ondesktop multimedia conferencing.