Re:The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings
by cedilla on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:44AM
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I've never had a conference with images that small. They are always more than adequate to see what someone's doing.
The big difference to presence meetings is that you send your picture into the void and don't get any social cues back, or very different ones.
You're arguing against a bit of a strawman there.
Re:The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings
by aplaice on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:35AM
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In-person meetings are completely different.
Video conferences are as if everybody were potentially constantly staring at you, but you couldn't tell if or when this was the case, and despite everybody looking at you, you couldn't even make eye-contact with anybody, share a smile etc.
If anything, video conferences are dehumanising.
Re:The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings
by piva00 on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:54AM
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No, I like offices, I'm a very outspoken and outgoing person, I enjoy social interactions. I don't like a camera pointing at my face.
It's not that difficult to see that this is a very different experience than sharing an office. And I'm tired of repeating this.
This is the 3rd time I'm replying that I feel that the experience of a camera is very different than real life interactions and I like real life interactions, I'm getting really exhausted of this non-sequitur being repeated...
Going from mostly physical office to mostly work-from-home on zoom is already a massive change that gives a lot of comfort to people. I think refusing literally ANY kind of human interaction apart from sound and written text is waaaay too anti-social.
Interaction is good, interaction is fine, this is where good ideas come from. Don't become a virtual entity. Humans are real.