Evolutionary Psychology

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up With measures to combat coronavirus leave so many people not able to meet the family and friends, how can we provide more meaningful connections, if we limit ourselves to phone calls or the use of video apps? Experts offer their advice.

Connect with your ears

at a time, to see if we miss, friends we can be seduced to the many video calls. But we could be better on the detection of other feelings, without visual cues.

Our hacks:

With the expertise of psychology Professor of the University of East London and the US-American neuroscientist.

Connect with your eyes

" if we increase the Eye Contact , others pay more attention to us," Says the founding Director of Stanford University 's Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

But video calls are a challenge, since on many devices the camera at The Edge of the screen.

"We have a choice between looking someone in The Eye and read non-verbal signals, like a curious face," Says Prof Bailenson.

"for the past 30 years, video conferencing companies have tried all sorts of devices to try and solve the Eye Contact Problem , but no one has it nailed. "

He also points to the "Problem " is the delay between an action and see it on the screen, between your voice and your movements.

in General, a 10 to a quarter of a second to Connect it.

, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, Says of the reading of expressions is particularly a challenge when We Are on a group video-chat, how we miss the "gaze cues."

"Of all the primates have to recognize people for the largest share of the white in our eyes, the skin, the so-called leather, which can go hand in hand, to who the others are," she Says .

"This is not to be used to our species, but on a group video call with any view to their screens. "

Our hacks:

With the expertise of Prof Jeremy Bailenson.

to Connect without touch,

, Professor of technology and communication at the University College London, believes that the lack of touch in online conversations is the biggest challenge.

"touch is our first sense, we feel it is in the womb, and it is important to give and receive information, and to help us bond," she Says .

feeling and touch are strongly related.

Although the United Kingdom as a whole, the human touch still, if you Greet.

In a pub, for example, there is a warmth and comfort of being close to people.

But we can not touch, We Are So Close that we feel touched.

Prof Jewitt team explored touching way for people to virtually, by sending the heat, vibration and pressure on a person other than a portable device.

In the studies of jackets that inflate and give you a sense of if your partner sends a message, one participant said, "Even if it is a machine squeezing me, I think of you, to embrace me. "

Our hacks:

With the expertise of Prof Christian van Nieuwerburgh.

illustrations by Emily Kasriel. Additional research by Kate Provornaya.

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Source of news: bbc.com