UNFOCUSED INTERACTION IN DISTRIBUTED WORKGROUPS

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Establishing group presence in a web-based environment


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Focused interaction

  • "the kind of communication that occurs when persons gather close together and openly cooperate to sustain a single focus of attention, typically by taking turns at talking."

Unfocused interaction
  • "the kind of communication that occurs when one gleans information about another person by glancing at him"

-- from "Behavior in Public Places", Erving Goffman, 1963.