Disadvantages of Electronic Meeting Systems
The majority of drawbacks of EMS versus traditional conferences or workshops have been overcome by technological progress or by adaptation of EMS to particular target groups and their dominant use cases:
- the formerly high infrastructure requirements have been reduced to Internet access and a web browser
- the formerly high demands on facilitators have been greatly reduced in systems that are designed to support everyday use by the non-expert user
- the traditional cultural barriers to the use of technology in meetings have been overcome through the general familiarization of users with telephone and web conferences.
The remaining drawbacks mostly result from the physical distribution of the participants when meeting online. Video conferences can only make up in part for not meeting in person.
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