Usefulness and Usability of a Multilingual Electronic Meeting System

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Abstract

Communication in multilingual meetings is difficult, and interpersonal barriers increase with the number of languages used in the discussion. In this paper, we show how participants in pseudo-oral and electronic, multilingual meetings were able to comprehend previously prepared comments in up to five languages, but the electronic meetings took much less time. In addition, there were no significant differences between the two types of meetings in terms of ease of use or usefulness, which leads us to the conclusion that for certain sets of languages and topics, an electronic meeting with machine translation is a viable alternative to the more traditional, oral setting.

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William Pepper, Milam Aiken Ph.D., Bart Garner Ph.D.. . "Usefulness and Usability of a Multilingual Electronic Meeting System". Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - A: Hardware & Computation GJCST-A Volume 11 (GJCST Volume 11 Issue A10).

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Usefulness and Usability of a Multilingual Electronic Meeting System

William Pepper
William Pepper School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi
Milam Ph.D.
Milam Ph.D. <p>School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi</p>
Bart Ph.D.
Bart Ph.D. <p>School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi</p>