Human communication

Because humans are unable to fully understand one another's perspective, there needs to be a creation of commonality through a shared mindset or viewpoint.

We share relevant background knowledge and joint experience in order to communicate content and coherence in exchanges.

[2] Most face-to-face communication requires visually reading and following along with the other person, offering gestures in reply, and maintaining eye contact throughout the interaction.

[1] The current study of human communication can be branched off into two major categories; rhetorical and relational.

[3][citation needed] In its early stages, rhetoric was developed to help ordinary people prove their claims in court; this shows how persuasion is key in this form of communication.

Eastern societies hold higher standards for cooperation, which makes sense as to why they would sway more toward a relational approach for that matter.

Each normal human is born with a capacity to rapidly and unerringly acquire their mother tongue, with little explicit teaching or coaching.

In his 1908 book, he observed that sensory organs play an important role in interaction, discussing examples of human behavior such as eye contact.

[25] Even though humans have possessed the technology to communicate in space and time (e.g. writing) for millennia, the majority of the world's population lacked the necessary skills, such as literacy, to use them.

Despite the advent of many new information and communication technologies, face-to-face interaction is still widespread and popular and has a better performance in many different areas.

Face-to-face interaction is also a useful way for people when they want to win over others based on verbal communication, or when they try to settle disagreements.

With recent advances in technology, such as the Internet, instant messaging, and smartphones, forms many channels and ways to interact with others.

[33] While technology has been able to bring communities and people closer together, humans have a responsibility to cultivate those connections and nurture them through old-fashioned face-to-face communication.

Ambiguous knowledge which arises frequently in a multicultural team is inevitable because of the different language habits.

The reason is that face-to-face communication can provide non-verbal messages including gestures, eye contact, touch, and body movement.

However, the virtual communications, such as email, only have verbal information which will make team members more misunderstanding of the knowledge due to their different comprehension of the same words.

On the other hand, the understanding of professional standards shows no difference between face-to-face interaction and virtual communications.

As a result, face-to-face interaction has a more positive influence on the negotiation of meaning than virtual communications such as the video call.