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Re:A theory of Zoom fatigue by jonshariat on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:28AM (#22931882)
Agreed. After reading the title, I immediately thought of the Doherty Threshold [1]. It states that if the system can respond to user actions and give the user feedback within 400ms, it increases users’ attention and productivity.

That constant delay, plus the worse ones when the connection loses strength, put a constant toll on "zoom" conversations.

I think that is the main factor but many of the items they brought up in the article also add to it but my guess is if there were no delay or drop in quality, it would be very manageable.

[1] https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold

Re:A theory of Zoom fatigue by nikanj on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:38AM (#22933135)
I can't believe basic things like typing out an email in Outlook visibly lag at times. I'm a decent typist, but I find it absolutely ludicrous that this quad-core monster is at times half a word behind on my typing
Re:A theory of Zoom fatigue by jquast on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:49PM (#22948875)
I can type up to 180wpm and I have to intentionally slow myself down to half speed, to use microsoft's start menu, wow. Typing "cmd.exe" or "notepad" in windows start menu, seeing those applications briefly appear as I type, but by the time I press return, it forgot about the match, and launches a bing search instead.

I feel like microsoft is still cluseless, looking at bing analytics and thinking millions of people search for "notepad" every day because they really think its a great thing to research?

Re:A theory of Zoom fatigue by bluGill on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:57AM (#22936100)
I'm amused because I remember typing on an 8 bit computer over a 300 baud modem to a different 8 bit computer that was echoing back and it was always able to keep up. Like you I find anything that can't do as good as the above setup unacceptable. Too bad I can't get It to put some reasonable selection criteria in the system