zoom chat

Video chat’s next major feature: physical positioning of participants (“mingle at a party” options) to allow a huge chat to be split into manageable groups!

Sep 14, 2020

Cameras / Photos / Video, Communication, Computers, Design, Internet, Technology, UI / UX

FaceTime, Skype, video chat, work from home, zoom chat

Background: With the 2020 COVID plague, work-related video chats have become increasingly full of a large number of participants (Figure 1). The issue: Video chats have a problem that in-person office work does not: there is no convenient way for participants of an unreasonably-large video chat group to split off into subgroups. Instead, every discussion…