The authors compare three ways of organizing meetings:traditionally; electronically, in which all participantshave PCs; and using LCD projection, where the facilitator has a PC withLCD, projected on a screen. They support and analyze the LCD approach.Most of the article covers the authors’ experience in various areas oforganizing LCD meetings: technical problems, human factors, and cost.The different scenarios of planning, writing draft reports, and votingare analyzed.

A useful table compares the three meeting modes and stresses theirimportance.

At first glance, I considered the topic of little importance, butafter reading the article, I realized that the ways meetings areorganized are crucial in terms of cost, efficiency, and impact oftechnology on the meeting results.

This is a good article, in that the authors systematically identifyand analyze the issues and problems associated with computer-aidedmeetings.