Videoconferencing rundown.

Jon "maddog" Hall maddog at li.org
Tue Jul 31 13:46:05 EDT 2012


Hi folks,

I remember when Digital had audio meetings with people sitting in a
large room talking to an audio box.  It was boring and painful because
you could NOT see the other person's body language, or even who was
there.

Video conferencing (and on a big "TV") made things a lot better, in my
experience, particularly if you had actually met some of the other
people at the other end of the line.

md

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 11:11 -0400, David Rysdam wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:58:31 -0400, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
> > >> I think people just don't like talking to TVs.
> > >
> > > Y'know... I kind of agree, and kind of disagree.  I can't quite figure
> > > out why the difference.  But, while I think talking to a desk phone with
> > > a video feed would be kinda weird, I find myself chatting with my wife ...
> > 
> >   I think there's a pretty big difference between interacting with the
> > people you presumably love the most in the world, and interacting with
> > some jerk at work you probabbly don't want to be talking to at all,
> > let alone looking at.
> 
> There's that too.
> 
> But I also think it's kind of an uncanny valley thing. You can see them,
> but it isn't a regular in-person conversation where you can see all
> their body language, get good depth info, see the same environment they
> are seeing, etc. 
> 
> A phone conversation is so abstract as to be a separate thing anyway,
> like a cartoon character.
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