Comments on: My Theory of Human Evolution (blogs and fan clubs edition); or Why We Blog http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/07/13/my-theory-of-human-evolution-blogs-and-fan-clubs-edition-or-why-we-blog/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:16:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: losing-it http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/07/13/my-theory-of-human-evolution-blogs-and-fan-clubs-edition-or-why-we-blog/#comment-30201 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:45:22 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/07/13/my-theory-of-human-evolution-blogs-and-fan-clubs-edition-or-why-we-blog/#comment-30201 I love this cartoon on the devolution of blogging. Reminds me of my own current blog (mine is rather more like blah-blah-blah-ging). Thought you might enjoy the funny, too, Dr. R.: http://sethlevine.typepad.com/vc_adventure/images/blog_1.jpg I love this cartoon on the devolution of blogging. Reminds me of my own current blog (mine is rather more like blah-blah-blah-ging). Thought you might enjoy the funny, too, Dr. R.:

http://sethlevine.typepad.com/vc_adventure/images/blog_1.jpg

]]> by: beta Levinson http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/07/13/my-theory-of-human-evolution-blogs-and-fan-clubs-edition-or-why-we-blog/#comment-27721 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:58:12 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/07/13/my-theory-of-human-evolution-blogs-and-fan-clubs-edition-or-why-we-blog/#comment-27721 ‘People with specialized interests who chat every morning via webcam’ Here’s something interesting from the Wikipedia article on videoconferencing: "It is known that eye contact plays a large role in conversational turn-taking …. While traditional telephone conversations give no eye contact cues, videoconferencing systems are arguably worse in that they provide an incorrect impression that the remote interlocutor is avoiding eye contact. This issue is being addressed through research that generates a synthetic image with eye contact using stereo reconstruction." ‘People with specialized interests who chat every morning via webcam’

Here’s something interesting from the Wikipedia article on videoconferencing:

“It is known that eye contact plays a large role in conversational turn-taking …. While traditional telephone conversations give no eye contact cues, videoconferencing systems are arguably worse in that they provide an incorrect impression that the remote interlocutor is avoiding eye contact. This issue is being addressed through research that generates a synthetic image with eye contact using stereo reconstruction.”

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