Ditch the video calls to be more productive
3 years, 8 months ago

Ditch the video calls to be more productive

The Independent  

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Now there’s Zoom burnout as well – a phrase that encompasses a lot more than the eye strain of too much screen time. Emerging research shows we get less done and we may end up unnecessarily replicating communication in our personal and working lives by having too many video meetings, and a new study highlights the causes of this fatigue and how to deal with it. We become forgetful, our listening quality degrades and recording Zoom meetings for later viewing simply creates more energy-sapping screen time. It might seem strange at first and take a bit of getting used to, but you might just find your meetings are more productive and satisfying Evidence for seriously considering meeting over the phone comes from other academic work that goes back a lot further.

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Scientists reveal the type of virtual backgrounds associated with ‘Zoom fatigue’
3 months ago

Scientists reveal the type of virtual backgrounds associated with ‘Zoom fatigue’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists said this is because, unlike still images or blurred backdrops, video backgrounds continuously present new information …

Zooming in...and zoning out: Can AI help with video call fatigue?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Zooming in...and zoning out: Can AI help with video call fatigue?

Hindustan Times  

It’s been four years since the world stalled without warning, and some things have never been the same. In a study titled Virtual Meeting Fatigue published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology in October, researchers at Finland’s Aalto University and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health tracked precisely how the human mind and body react, by monitoring heart rate …

Seeing self on video calls leads to mental fatigue, study finds
8 months ago

Seeing self on video calls leads to mental fatigue, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Seeing your own image during video conferencing calls leads to mental …

Microsoft research finds continuous virtual meetings can make you stressed, suggests mini breaks in between
3 years, 8 months ago

Microsoft research finds continuous virtual meetings can make you stressed, suggests mini breaks in between

India Today  

With work-from-home being the new norm in the pandemic-stricken world, companies have been trying to find out the best practices to keep their employees healthy and productive. New research conducted by Microsoft on such lines tells us that continuous video calls without breaks can reduce focus and even trigger stress. The recordings from the EEG during both days confirmed that …

A Year of Working from Home. This is How Zoom Calls have Affected Our Brains
3 years, 9 months ago

A Year of Working from Home. This is How Zoom Calls have Affected Our Brains

News 18  

We have passed a year since the initial Covid-19 shutdowns. Zoom has become a huge part of today’s work flow, with a 470% increase in customers having more than 10 employees from this time last year, the company says. A Stanford analysis explains with a breakdown of the four causes of “zoom fatigue.” You don’t expect primordial instincts to kick …

Zoom fatigue: The differing impact on introverts and extroverts
3 years, 9 months ago

Zoom fatigue: The differing impact on introverts and extroverts

Live Mint  

Over a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, more people are increasingly familiar with “Zoom fatigue,” the tiredness and burnout caused by overuse of videoconferencing tools such as Zoom. But because video calls are more about talking heads, extroverts end up “using more focus and not likely getting the same reward as a live interaction,” Dr. Lamson says. For one thing, …

Stanford study tells you exactly why Zoom meetings are fatiguing
3 years, 9 months ago

Stanford study tells you exactly why Zoom meetings are fatiguing

Live Mint  

A Stanford University communications Professor Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, examined the psychological consequences of spending hours every day on video calls. In the first peer-reviewed article that deconstructs Zoom fatigue from a psychological perspective, published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior on Feb. 23, Bailenson analysed features of the video calling platform …

Feel drained after a year of Zoom meetings? There's brain science behind that fatigue
4 years ago

Feel drained after a year of Zoom meetings? There's brain science behind that fatigue

ABC  

As you hit the red 'leave' button on your last video conference call of 2020 and shut your laptop, you rub your eyes and slump back in your chair. Video calls have only appeared recently in human history, and while our brain has evolved over the millennia to be pretty great at face-to-face communication, it's less deft at processing virtual …

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