“We might all be looking at the speaker on Zoom, but the visible cues of shared attention no longer exist.” “In our typical meeting places, much of our attention is directed toward one thing: to the speaker, the person asking a question, a slide or the storybook for younger children,” says Johnson, who is director of the Social Vision Laboratory at UCLA. Johnson - who participated in a UCLA Connections webinar that was, yes, hosted on Zoom - says Zoom fatigue is a real thing, and many factors on Zoom disrupt more traditional interpersonal communication styles. But it’s not irredeemably so, because we are adaptable creatures. It is up to a point, says Kerri Johnson, professor of communication and psychology in the UCLA College, as we struggle with the shock of the new. That is maybe when we realized Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms were here to stay.Īs the novelty has evaporated and previously unheard of amounts of screen time take its toll, is the resulting exhaustion inevitable? Google Trends noted queries about “uncertainty,” “frustration” and “exhaustion” peaked in the first week of May. The joys of Zoom, the video chat service that has seen daily usage explode from 10 million in December 2019 to 300 million six months later, are legion.īut during the past few months, the darker sides of video chats are coming into focus.
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