Work From Home video calling, where is employee's attention? Read to know

Coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people around world. It has led to lockdown in many countries. Companies are being shut and several has given work from home such. In this scenario, video conferencing apps are blooming as employees are doing video call to conduct meetings. But question is where everyone's attention remains during video calls. Read to kw more.  

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Gazing during video call

COVID-19 has resulted in increased video calls as people are working from home during lockdown. According to reports by an online portal, a neuroscientist from Florida Atlantic University have found that a person's gaze changes during video calls if y think that person on or end of conversation can see m.

phemen is kwn as "gaze cueing." It is a powerful signal for orienting attention. It is a mechanism that likely plays a role in developmentally and socially important wonder of 'shared' or 'joint' attention where a number of people attend to same location or object.

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Associate professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University Elan Barenhtolz said that as gaze direction conveys so much socially relevant information, one's own gaze behaviour is likely to be affected by wher one's eyes are visible to a speaker. For instance, people might intend to signal that y are paying more attention to a speaker by focusing on ir face or eyes during a conversation. Barenholtz explained that more eye contact can also be perceived as aggressive and refore ticing one's eyes could lead to reduced direct fixation of ar's face or eyes. People eng in igring eye movements by regularly breaking and reforming eye contact during conversations.

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For study, published in journal Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, a team compared fixation behaviour in 173 participants under two conditions. In one, participants believed y were engaging in real-time interaction. or was a pre-recorded call, but participants were told that it was a live-interaction. researchers wanted to find out if face fixation would boost in real-time condition based on social rms of facing one's speaker in order to get attention or if it would lead to greater face igrance, based on social expectation as well as cognitive demands of encoding conversation.

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conclusion came out to be that when face was fixated, attention was directed toward mouth for greater percent of time in pre-recorded condition versus real-time condition.