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Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town

Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com> Thu, 30 July 2020 15:51 UTC

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From: Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com>
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Subject: Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town
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> Il 30/07/2020 17:41 John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> ha scritto:
> 
> I think the regular chat session windows are a good idea but I
> also see a great deal of potential for what would amount to a
> periodic equivalent to a newcomer's meet and greet session,
> maybe even encouraging people to connect and start conversations
> who would be too shy to approach one of us current or former AD
> types in a physical hallway.

Also, in a physical hallway I can negotiate the start of a conversation by looking for non-verbal clues that immediately make it clear whether the person near me is interested in speaking to me or not. When I tried gather.town, it just felt unnatural to bump my avatar into another avatar (independently from whether I knew the person or not) and wait for several seconds for an AV connection to be established before understanding whether I'd be welcome or not. 

So an event like a virtual reception, and/or visual clues on virtual avatars representing a degree of availability to new conversations, could help a lot - even if, in the end, conversations mediated by computers are inherently more unnatural than real world ones, so the barrier for shy people will always be much higher.

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