Online vs in-person invited presentation: the butterflies won’t go!

Due to COVID-19, many meetings went virtual. This was the case of the main meeting in my field. For that meeting, we were asked to record ourself using (minimally) the PPT application record feature and export as mp4 the result. For a given session, we would be present live with camera and mic but our presentation would be a replay of our video. At the end, we would be available for the live Q&A portion of the session.

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Digital Complexity

As I previously stated, we are currently living the largest social and professional experiment of our time in which many activities have moved to digital, virtual long distance connections. Quite interestingly over that past 5 weeks my usage of videoconferencing software has been on average 14h/week (range 8h to 19h). Even is the most busy videoconferencing week, I have found that the interaction with colleagues and students not fully satisfying.

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