A picture erases a thousand words?
When you are reading the section in Preece on Cooperation in Chapter 6, you will see (Walther) more than once. You’ll also see his ideas and/or discoveries in the Summary. Last year about this time, Sri brought Dr. Walther here to give a research talk in which he talked about his work with virtual teams and cooperation. I blogged about it and have several links to his papers in “A Picture Erases a Thousand Words.” If you are interested in trust-building online and in online group work, Walther’s papers and the ideas that I hope I managed to capture will be very useful to you.
But is he right? Do groups work better with less rich media or in a very rich media environment? Afterall Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Weblog Usability Mistakes include as the first two “mistakes” No Author Biography and No Author Photo. Who is right and to what degree?
