It’s virtually impossible to make and maintain eye contact during videoconferencing.
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Eye contact is essential for building and developing trust. But after more than a year of working and socializing online, our ability to make and maintain eye contact has been diminished.
Remote work — with its countless and never-ending online meetings — is taking its toll on employees.
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As remote work continues through the pandemic, workers are experiencing burnout and fatigue brought on by excessive periods of time spent online.
A Michigan Zoom court session is seen in this May 2020 photo.
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If Zoom courts are here to stay, we must ensure virtual courts function as well as possible by identifying and promoting best practices.
A Jewish family gathers in person and over video conferencing for Passover celebrations in 2020.
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As Jewish families gather this Passover, many might find solace in the history of the celebrations and how it offers hope for the future.
How can lecturers avoid one of the classic syndromes of remote teaching: a screen of blank student webcams?
How to invite students to participate in classes and experiment when the computer becomes the main classroom?
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A new economic model of how remote working is developing reveals some interesting results.
Using nonverbal cues like hand gestures can help make communicating over video more effective.
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Two strategies can make videoconferencing as effective as meeting face to face, or even better.
Remote working became the new normal in 2020.
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The sudden shift to remote work in 2020 has paved the way for a new type of workspace in the future.
The party could be an opportunity - but don’t go if you don’t want to.
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It’s a wonderful time of the year.
Open scholarship and the use of corporate software services such as Zoom are not always compatible.
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For science to be open, one can reasonably think that it would have to use open software. However, being completely open is not that easy.
In lieu of in-person gatherings, holiday and end-of-year celebrations will be virtual because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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The second (and third) wave of the pandemic continues as the end-of-year holiday season approaches. Here are strategies to fight Zoom fatigue while staying virtually close to your loved ones.
Can we say goodbye to Zoom yet? Not quite.
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Zoom shares tumbled with the announcement of a vaccine - but reactive markets don’t reflect people’s desire to keep working from home
People’s Zoom style differs according to gender.
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Preliminary research shows that men and women tend to use Zoom differently because gender dynamics influence online activities.
Students are being forced to disclose sensitive information online.
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Has technology gone too far to keep students honest during exams? A scholar on privacy and technology weighs in.
It was fun for a while, but people quickly got sick of video calls during lockdown.
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The 1996 novel foresaw people’s obsession with video calls – and their eventual disenchantment.
Eugene DePasquale, left, Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, in Harrisburg, Penn., Sept. 19, shows that even the traditional handshake with voters has changed in pandemic-era campaigns.
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How do you run a political campaign in a pandemic? From data brokers to advertising firms to voter registration volunteers, the players in campaigns are making adjustments, large and mostly small.
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that courtrooms have been forced to become virtual, but is the long-term adoption of technology a threat to justice?
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The coronavirus pandemic has forced courtroom proceedings online, and what is now missing are most of the non-verbal cues used to determine whether or not those taking the stand are being truthful.
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Hip-hop got its start as a political artistic force in the streets of Bronx. In the age of coronavirus, that same force has taken to the internet.
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Enforced working from home during the pandemic levelled the playing field between remote and office-based workers.
Students at Long Branch Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, used tech to perform an ‘Aristocats’ number.
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Much like what everyone in showbiz from Lady Gaga to Lang Lang seems to be doing, school-age music students are using apps and software to play instruments and sing together.