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Group Decision Making on Urban Planning Using Desktop Multimedia Conferencing

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Recent developments on multimedia systems and networking technology show that using desktop multimedia conferencing for group decision making on wide area networks such as the Internet is possible. In this paper we review the design, hardware and software requirements and organizational issues in a desktop multimedia conferencing system. We draw on our experiences from multiple multimedia conferences on the Internet and in particular we focus on a case study on urban planning using desktop multimedia conferencing on the Internet. Further we discuss implications for further research on desktop multimedia conferencing.

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  1. Center for Informatics Services (ZID), University of Art, Hauptplatz 8, A-4010, Linz, Austria

    Schahram Dustdar

  2. Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis, University of Salzburg, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Reinhold Huber

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Dustdar, S., Huber, R. Group Decision Making on Urban Planning Using Desktop Multimedia Conferencing. Multimedia Tools and Applications 6, 33–46 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009686412114

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