On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >> A high level of forbearance will be required, because social cues >> will be absent, and many of us are socially inept even with F2F >> interactions. >... >> Lesson learned: In a F2F situation, listener facial expression >> changes would have restructured my hypothetical comment on the fly; >> perhaps none of us would have noticed. Online, in a user group with >> a high proportion of Asperger and social-isolate personalities, >> Things Could Get Bad. >Years ago I studied NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and learned >(among other things) that about 60% of communication is non-verbal. I >think your concerns would be alleviated if most (preferably all) >video/web conference participants could be seen as well as heard. > >I think that adding visual cues to audio ones is necessary now with the >Covid-19 pandemic and will likely remain a prominent business and >social tool once life re-stabilizes to whatever new normal it achieves. > >It's like teaching a university class or giving a presentation at a >professional meeting. When you see eyes glaze or audience attention >wandering you change your presentation on the fly to improve your >communication with them. +1 for yours and Keith's observations. And I should add that when the audio signal is converted to electricity at one end and then back to audio at the other, a huge percentage of the frequency is lost, which is why it's much more difficult to understand over a telephone than in person. There's a reason for the existence of catch-phrases like 's as in Sam,' and 'f as in Frank.' At Portland State Department of Applied Linguistics they have a classroom equipped with half a dozen cameras which they use as an aide for teaching people how to teach. It's all about the feedback, folks. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
