Thursday, October 26, 2006

What's the video threshold for face-reading?. Why isn't videoconferencing more compelling? When we say we want to look the other person in the eye, what we really want to do is read the microexpressions of the face. As Malcolm Gladwell points out in Blink, people adept at reading faces can literally read minds. And at a sufficient frame rate the visual channel can transmit those microexpressions. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] This week's column is a follow-up to an earlier one about corporate PR use of Second Life, parodied here. While that column was in the pipeline, Cisco announced its new high-end teleconferencing system, videoblogged by Robert Scoble here. That got me thinking again about what the minimum requirements for emotionally effective telepresence might actually be. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:57:32 AM      Google It!.