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I think for many people, one of the advantages of working remotely is that it's possible to have more privacy. I'm not sure live video for the entire work day i

• gumby 3y ago
  In my mind (and my attempts) the question went back to “ambient presence”, meaning extending the existing proximal environment. I agree a camera on a person is almost always bad, and an involuntary camera on a person is always bad. But what about connecting two offices? If I stand in one corner I have a very low resolution understanding of what’s going on — can’t really see any screens, just get a general gestalt of the energy level, if Bob looks like he’s concentrating etc. Maybe I’d walk over to the next room, see across the room that he’s busy, so send him email instead. I’d like that kind of thing, and that kind of thing not using a traffic light on a dashboard but something that used human senses, intuition, and affordances. But we are far from solving this problem.
  • michaelmior 3y ago
    One high-level approach that might work is to have a fully-local app monitor the user (possibly including the camera, current activity, etc.) and then expose some high-level information to the rest of the team. I think this could potentially work well, although it would be hard to do it in a way users can trust.