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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Video calls seemed an elegant solution to
remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated
ways.</blockquote>
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>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/coronavirus-zoom-<span
></span>fatigue-is-taxing-the-brain-here-is-why-that-happens/</blockquote
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Annie Abrahams - Daniel Pinheiro:<i> Why
is the use of videoconferencing so exhausting?</i> a short
video essay that will be published in autumn in the Journal of
Embodied Research.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>These notes are a kind of sneak peek into
that essay:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>There is always delay. We are never
exactly in the same time space.The space is awkward because we are
confronted with faces in close up for long time spans. We have seen a
face framed like that for the first time when we were a baby in a
cradle and when our parents looked into it. Later it became the frame
of the interactions with our lovers in bed. This makes that while
video-conferencing we are always connected to something very intimate
even in professional situations.<br>
At the same time it is impossible to detect much detail in the image
we see and so we lack the subtle bodily clues for the content of what
someone tells. Our imagination fills the gaps and makes it necessary
to process, to select what to ignore. In the meantime we are
continuously scanning the screen (there is no overview and no
periphery). We are never sure we are "there", that the connexion
still exists, and so we check our own image all the time. We hear a
compressed mono sound, all individual sounds are mixed into one
soundscape. This makes we really share something but also that we have
difficulties distinguishing who makes what sound. (more scanning of
the screen)</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Attention is easily disrupted by all
kinds of interruptions. A strange sound, a car?, a bird?, our cat who
walks by, someone is opening a door "here", but also "there"
in the interface someone walks in the background, another is
exaggerating affective signs. All this attracts our gaze and loosens
our attention. And maybe above all video conferencing is
psychologically demanding because our brains need to process a self as
body and as image.</i> (Please mention<i> Why is the use of
videoconferencing so exhausting?</i>, Annie Abrahams and Daniel
Pinheiro, Journal of Embodied Research Vol. 3 2020. if you ever use
some of this text.)</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Annie Abrahams:<i> Preconditions for
Online Participation</i></blockquote>
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>https://www.academia.edu/40046068/Preconditions_for_Online_Participa<span
></span>tion</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Annie Abrahams:<i>Trapped to Reveal -
On webcam mediated communication and collaboration</i>, Jar #2 ISSN
2235-0225, <a
href=
"https://jar-online.net/exposition/abstract/trapped-reveal-webcam-mediated-communication-and-collaboration"></a></blockquote>
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>https://jar-online.net/exposition/abstract/trapped-reveal-webcam-med<span
></span>iated-communication-and-collaboration</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Š<i>we will have to become more radical
in our experimentations and start to be more critical towards our own
work. We shouldn't be afraid to operate a 'niche', where we are
'just' our own audience. It might be a prerequisite for new
discoveries, for the creation of a situation where we learn together
what it means to be connected.</i>..</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>From<i> Learn together what it means to
be connected,</i> Annie Abrahams in CyPosium - The Book,<b>
2014</b>, ISBN 9781291988925.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href=
"https://www.academia.edu/40052680/Learn_together_what_it_means_to_be_connected"><span
></span
>https://www.academia.edu/40052680/Learn_together_what_it_means_to_be<span
></span>_connected</a></blockquote>
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