8.3.4 Enhancing Conferences and Symposia using Web Based Asynchronous Techniques1

This paper describes ways to enhance confer- ences using Web-Based asynchronous techniques and their advantages and disadvantages as compared to a traditional synchronous face-to-face conference. The paper also treats the development of the prototype WebConference as a Case Study, discusses the proto- typing experiments using the world as a laboratory and provides several lessons about the requirements and systems engineering processes.