Do we really need to leave our cameras on? \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Employees are frequently ENCOURAGED TO UTILIZE THEIR CAMERAS \ud83c\udfa5 during online meetings because managers frequently believe that the MORE A DIGITAL CONTACT MIMICS A FACE-TO-FACE ENCOUNTER, the better the communication will be. A recent study calls that way of thinking into question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udd2c 198 pairs of remote participants were split into two groups before being given a variety of tasks to gauge their collective intelligence, a crucial component of group problem-solving. The partners in one group held video \ud83d\udcf9 conferences, while the others held audio-only \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f conferences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The researchers evaluated each pair’s ability to take turns speaking while also rating the SYNCHRONICITY OF THEIR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND PROSODIC SPEECH (tone, rhythm, and other vocal cues)\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udcbb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83e\udd2f Surprisingly, VIDEO DID NOT IMPROVE GROUP INTELLIGENCE or the synchronization of facial expressions, and the audio-only pairings were better at coordinating their speech cues and taking turns\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u275dLimited access to video may promote better communication and social interaction during collaborative problem-solving, as there are FEWER STIMULI TO DISTRACT COLLABORATORS\u275e<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\ud83d\udcac \u201cSpeaking Out of Turn: How Video Conferencing Reduces Vocal Synchrony and Collective Intelligence,\u201d by Maria Tomprou et al. (PLOS ONE, 2021)
\ud83d\udcd2 Source: HBR US Dec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do we really need to leave our cameras on? \ud83d\ude05 Employees are frequently ENCOURAGED TO UTILIZE THEIR CAMERAS \ud83c\udfa5 during online meetings because managers frequently believe that the MORE A DIGITAL CONTACT MIMICS A FACE-TO-FACE ENCOUNTER, the better the communication will be. A recent study calls that way of thinking into question. \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udd2c 198 pairs of remote participants were split into two groups before being given a variety of tasks to gauge their collective intelligence, a crucial component of group problem-solving. The partners in one group held video \ud83d\udcf9 conferences, while the others held audio-only \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f conferences. The researchers evaluated each pair’s ability to take turns speaking while also rating the SYNCHRONICITY OF THEIR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND PROSODIC SPEECH (tone, rhythm, and other vocal cues)\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udcbb \ud83e\udd2f Surprisingly, VIDEO DID NOT IMPROVE GROUP INTELLIGENCE or the synchronization of facial expressions, and the audio-only pairings were better at coordinating their speech cues and taking turns\u203c\ufe0f \u275dLimited access to video may promote better communication and social interaction during collaborative problem-solving, as there are FEWER STIMULI TO DISTRACT COLLABORATORS\u275e \ud83d\udcac \u201cSpeaking Out of Turn: How Video Conferencing Reduces Vocal Synchrony and Collective Intelligence,\u201d by Maria Tomprou et al. (PLOS ONE, 2021)\ud83d\udcd2 Source: HBR US Dec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-business","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}