Re:The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings
by mkl on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:42AM
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I guess I don't have that strong need to know exactly when someone is looking at me. If I'm with other people I behave as if they can see me, because they probably can, and if appropriate I relax. I don't think I could reliably keep track of who was looking at me in an in-person meeting with more than three people anyway. Keeping track of that and changing behaviour when people look at me or look away seems like it would be exhausting.
The parallel does not work, I don't think it's that hard to realise that a camera pointing at your face, showing how you look at any given moment to anyone that looks at you and you can't tell if they are looking at you or not is equivalent to an in-person setting where you are aware of your surroundings much more naturally.
I really don't know how to be more explicit than this about the major differences between in-person to a virtual meeting with cameras...