Face-to-face interaction enhances learning, innovation

Title should be amended to something like &#x27;Face-to-face, rather than shoulder-to-shoulder, enhances learning, innovation.&#x27;<p>For a high quality face-to-face remote experience, I expect we&#x27;ll start to see really impressive consumer ready technology announced soon. See what Facebook have been doing with cameras mounted in VR headsets [1] or Google&#x27;s Project Starline [2].<p>That said, when we&#x27;re doing this much transformation and synthesis of the raw data to achieve high-fidelity telepresence, are we going to have issues trusting it?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27199330" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27199330</a>

&quot;Children, in contrast, came up with new solutions and often remained in their original position.&quot;<p>Basically, kids fooled around and played while the adults tried to complete the task as quickly as possible as get on with reality.<p>&quot;Those results suggested adults had become better rote learners but less innovative with time and more formal education.&quot;<p>Did they find a control group of adults without formal education?<p>The &quot;results&quot; of social science ...

This is cool. I&#x27;m reminded of a physics &amp; chemistry teacher I had that would strap a webcam to his chin and project the feed onto the whiteboard; this was only just financially and technically possible for a state school at the time - I had family in the school administration and have since been told how hard he had to work to get any of that &quot;experimental teaching equipment&quot;.<p>It makes me wonder if there are good ways to improve my interaction with my team - OBS to embed my face in the screen share and try and find something to do eye tracking?

So, you re saying that we need to improve remote face-to-face tools

Worth noting the type of tasks discussed in the paper: visuospatial<p>&gt; Learning a new visuospatial task, such as how to tie a knot or play an instrument, is thought to require us to adopt the teachers’ perspectives, to try to see the world through their eyes. However, the new research suggests it might also be important to actually see their eyes.<p>I think there is something to &quot;it might also be important to actually see their eyes.&quot;. When I talk about code I tend to move the mouse around the places I talk about not necessarily expecting people to grasp every bit in every place but just visualizing where my own attention is.

Of course it does. But usually there is no interaction because most people do not interact.<p>Usually as a student I did raise my hand and asked questions and was the only one or sometimes we were two or three at most in a class of 40 people. Then in a class of 100, or 200 in the University.<p>Most people sit still, passive. They do not interact. Those people are better served with a video they can play at 2x and rewind multiple times, do automatic speech recognition,use with anki, archive and search.<p>In fact the best way to learn is a one on one interaction, that would be too expensive to have. I was getting it because most people did not use their share.

That was more interesting than I expected from the headline, making the headline sort of a don’t-click-bait.

Calling it face-to-face interaction is confusing when it is actually about the perspective at which a student observes the actions of a teacher.

My Tai Chi mentor faces us and lifts her left arm. Most of us lift our right arm. I lift my left arm. &quot;It does not matter&quot; She said. &quot;Show intention&quot; She reminds us.

This sounds like more of one of those articles to manipulate people perception of back to the office. Judging by the funding donated by the FAANG, doesn’t surprise me.

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