The movement emphasised tacit knowledge, craft skill, and learning by doing through face-to-face collaboration in material projects.
"Now, if it really were all about face-to-face collaboration and working on-site, why do employees all need iPhone5s?" Fell asks.
In his research on the place of IT in the modern world and in the face-to-face collaboration, he combines discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and multimodal analysis.
Although the Internet facilitates easy communication among group members, nothing works as well as face-to-face collaboration on a project.
This paper reports on the design of a digital system that aims to support the practice of face-to-face collaboration on open-ended tasks.
This paper examines the differences between online synchronous and offline face-to-face collaboration in the context of a computer-supported modeling task.
As stated above in Section 1, the entire experimentation was implemented using the procedure/method that was set by the authors in a study comparing face-to-face collaboration facilitated by paper and MR media (Wang and Dunston, 2008).
This phase usually lasts 4 weeks and runs in parallel with the OpenStack Design Summit on the third week (in a mixture of virtual and face-to-face collaboration).
Mediation of turn-taking during remote collaboration provides a context to explore haptic affordances for background communication as well as control negotiation in remote collaboration: existing turn-taking protocols are rudimentary, lacking many communication cues available in face-to-face collaboration.
Dan Carol (@DanCarolDC) is a Senior Advisor at The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, where he focuses on accelerating government innovation with creative thinking, online technology and face-to-face collaboration.
Further evidence: those same Harvard researchers found that rather than "prompting increasingly vibrant face-to-face collaboration, open architecture [appears] to trigger a natural human response to socially withdraw from officemates and interact instead over email and IM".
