Friday, April 14th, 2006
Creating passionate users is becoming one of my favorite websites. Yesterdays post on why face-to-face matters notes how video chat is very close to face time but lacks in the eye contact department:
Video chat is better than any other form of non face-to-face, because you get facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, AND real-time responsiveness. But—he said there’s still a very unsettling feature for the brain because there’s really no way for BOTH speakers to make eye contact! … there’s no way to have the camera right in your face, in a place where you can still look into the other person’s eyes. Bottom line: You can see the camera or the person’s eyes… but not both.
I wonder if some fancy image processing could be applied so as to give the illusion of eye contact between both parties.
