A Preliminary Study Exploring the Performance of Systems Development in Face-to-face Setting in Relation to Television Video Conferencing

This article presents the findings of a preliminary study exploring the performance of systems development in a faceto-face setting in relation to a dispersed setting using television video conference. The study finds that systems development in the dispersed setting using television video conference can produce at the least same performance as in the face-to-face setting. It indicates that better training in virtual work and technologies can produce same performance in lesser amount of time. The study also explored the nature and content of interactions in both the groups, and found that the group using television video conferencing interacted for lesser amount of time on task-related activities.