... are being dis- cussed concurrently, whereas face to face discussions tend to focus oD one single topic at a time and then move on to subsequent topics. (See Hiltz and Turoff, 1978, for a complete ... mission of its originators (See Eady and Lafferty). The experiments thus had a 2 x 2 factorial design (see figure one). The factors were mode of communication (face- to -face vs. camputerlzed ... 1980 Face to Face Vs. Computerized Conferences: A Con- trolled Experiment. Hiltz, Starr Roxanne, Kenneth Johnson, and Ann Marie Rabke 1980 Communications Process and Outcome in Face to Face...