It was mentioned in the end of this week's lecture that maybe the future is in community-based groupware. It might surely be so, as it's what is happening in the society also on lager scale: people do their own thing (work or other) quite individually but are connected in the same time. And others can be informed what's been done almost instantly. So the focus is not on having people around some certain Electronic Meeting System focusing on the shared task, but rather doing the work independently but so that the groupware offers a way to communicate rapidly and without extra effort. “Groupware is organized around groups of people working independently, rather than shared applications, documents, or virtual places.” [1]
To me it makes a lot of sense, that people tend to get more done on their own. Typically a formal meeting includes lots of arrangements concerning the meeting, not the issue. An informal, different time groupware has less of these disadvantages and surely in some cases is more effective tool for group work.
1. Lecture slides (https://learning.uta.fi/mod/resource/view.php?id=202813)
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