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A couple of differences. First, vision is much higher bandwidth. You can glance at a notification and immediately know that you have a message, who sent the me
by saulrh 14y ago
A couple of differences.
First, vision is much higher bandwidth. You can glance at a notification and immediately know that you have a message, who sent the message, and how you received it. Takes half a second. Bluetooth earpieces are only suitable for sustained conversation. They are social faux pas because you are having a sustained conversation with someone else. This is not the case with HMDs - someone using a tool like Glass is actually more focused on their task and less distracted overall because they spend less time switching contexts. Citation: http://dmrussell.net/CHI2010/docs/p1695.pdf http://dmrussell.net/CHI2010/docs/p1695.pdf
Second, glancing at an HMD is fundamentally different from pulling out a cell phone because you're not looking away from the other person. It is difficult to emphasize how important this is to people who have not done work in this field. It is looking away that breaks conversations, not doing something else. Conversation continues to work as long as the other person thinks you're looking at them. And having an HMD on is close enough that people don't react to you jumping away into glass-land to look something up or jot down a note. This one doesn't have a citation, but I have spent several years taking classes from the guy who now runs the Google Glass project, and I can tell you this from direct experience.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: please, please try these things before you dismiss them. Social interaction is sufficiently complicated that experimentation is the only way to predict how people will react to something. And the experiments show that Glass works.
- threeseed 14y agoIt is looking away that breaks conversations, not doing something else. You ARE looking away. And depending on how many messages you receive it could be just as irritating to the person(s) you're with as constantly checking your phone. Least of all the constant doubt about whether your conversation is being recorded or not. I am not disputing their unquestionable usefulness I just have doubts they will be acceptable in most social situations.
- onedev 14y agoFrom having tried Glass, I can affirm that you do indeed look away. If any of you are wearing glasses, try looking at the top corner of your frame; that's the same motion needed to engage with Glass. You'd effectively completely break eye contact with the person you're talking to and motion as if you're looking at something completely different. It's the equivalent of getting distracted by a cool car while your friend talks to you and you have to say "sorry, I saw a cool car, go on".
- bryanl 14y agoThis interesting. Owning Glass, I can assure you that of is possible to maintain eye contact while viewing content. Depending on the amount of cognition needed to process the content, this perceived conversation might be broken.
- killerpopiller 14y agoI am keen to try reading while driving on an autobahn, is it save? Can I develop while looking out of the window? That would be great, this staring on a screen always felt somewhat autistic.
- ferrouswheel 14y agoI don't know about you, but people that stare at me without keeping their eye movement dynamic are freaky and intense. The thing I think will be weird is that Glass is in the upper right, and looking up and right is associated with creativity aka lying. Not sure why they didn't go with upper left, which is more associated with memory recall. Both these eye movements happen in normal conversation btw.
- GHFigs 14y agoConversation continues to work as long as the other person thinks you're looking at them. And having an HMD on is close enough that people don't react to you jumping away into glass-land to look something up or jot down a note. If I understand you correctly, you're asserting that talking to your glasses does not interrupt conversation?
- gradstudent 14y ago> Second, glancing at an HMD is fundamentally different from pulling out a cell phone because you're not looking away from the other person. I see this like conversing with someone that's looking past you: i.e. incredibly grating because you obviously do not have their full attention.
- blablabla123 14y agoI think you are missing the point how looking at a cell-phone is impolite. It's like this: you tell a friend about this cool new software but he thinks what do eat. Someone else tries to explain something to you but you figure how to solve that software bug. When I was 16 or so, I stopped wearing a watch. Because so often I just looked at this watch, even when time did not matter so much. But this reflex raises your stress level. When I looked more often at the watch I remember people asking me whether I was in a hurry or something. Maybe I'm a bit extreme about that, but the fact is this: more multimedia, more distraction, more stress. Even more when we are talking about push updates.