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Ever feel worn out after wrapping up a series of video meetings? You may be dealing with what s called Zoom fatigue.
A study from Stanford University s Virtual Human Interaction Lab highlights four causes for your videoconferencing exhaustion and how to fix it. The findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Technology, Mind and Behavior.
Jeremy Bailenson, the author of the study and founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, said there are four issues that lead to Zoom fatigue :
Too much close-up eye contact. Our faces are much larger on the screen than they would appear in a real-life encounter, says Bailenson. Plus, our view of others is set up to simulate maintaining eye contact. On Zoom, behavior ordinarily reserved for close relationships – such as long stretches of direct eye gaze and faces seen close up has suddenly become the way we interact with casual acquaintances, co-workers, and even strangers, Bailenson writes.
The phenomenon was dubbed Zoom fatigue, after the popular videoconferencing software.
As the Covid pandemic enters its second year, with many people still working and attending school remotely, researchers from Stanford and other schools are starting to closely study how videoconferencing affects people on a psychological level.
There are four main ways that videoconferencing could contribute to feelings of exhaustion, wrote Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, in a paper published Wednesday:
Videoconferencing forces users to make extended eye contact
Nonverbal signals like nodding require more effort
The little box where users see themselves is unnatural
Four reasons why Zoom is so exhausting and what you can do about it
During the pandemic, the phrase “Zoom fatigue” became part of our vocabulary.
(Illustration by Steve Breen / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Feb. 25, 2021 12:34 PM PT
One week into stay-at-home orders last year, Jeremy Bailenson was talking to a BBC reporter and had an epiphany.
“Why are we Zooming? There’s no need for us to be on Zoom,” he thought. A phone call would have sufficed.
This kernel of realization became an op-ed article that Bailenson wrote in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Zoom Meetings Can Exhaust Us.”
The phenomenon was dubbed Zoom fatigue, after the popular videoconferencing software.
As the Covid pandemic enters its second year, with many people still working and attending school remotely, researchers from Stanford and other schools are starting to closely study how videoconferencing affects people on a psychological level.
There are four main ways that videoconferencing could contribute to feelings of exhaustion, wrote Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, in a paper published Wednesday:
Videoconferencing forces users to make extended eye contact
Nonverbal signals like nodding require more effort
The little box where users see themselves is unnatural
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