Study finds video chats fatigue humans due to the intense up-close eye contact, constant self-view in real time, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load
It's not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their effects.
I need everyone to read this before inviting me to a zoom call that should have been a phone call (or an email). THIS is partly why we're so bloody exhausated: https://news.stanford.edu/...
Communication professor Jeremy Bailenson has identified four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and provides four simple solutions in the first peer-reviewed article that systematically deconstructs Zoom fatigue from a psychological perspective. https://news.stanford.edu/...
1. Excessive amounts of close-up eye contact is highly intense 2. Seeing yourself during video chats constantly in real-time is fatiguing 3. Video chats dramatically reduce our usual mobility 4. Cognitive load is much higher in video chats #ZoomFatigue https://news.stanford.edu/.…
“in regular face-to-face interaction, nonverbal communication is quite natural and each of us naturally makes and interprets gestures and nonverbal cues subconsciously. But in video chats, we have to work harder to send and receive signals.” https://news.stanford.edu/...