As a linguist, waving is a brilliant solution to bridge the sudden disappearance at the end of a video call: esp in a group, when you can see everyone's waving, you know they're all ready to leave It's like standing up, picking up your coat/bag - transitional movementshttps://twitter.com/claremackint0sh/status/1263481311907504128 …
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Gretchen McCulloch Retweeted Lauren Gawne
A gesture linguist (who I happen to videochat with a lot) agrees!https://twitter.com/superlinguo/status/1263696495800279040 …
Gretchen McCulloch added,
Lauren Gawne @superlinguoA thing I believed even before our whole working lives moved to video chat: the best way to end a video call is a sustained hand wave while hanging up. Clearly indicates you know you're on video but the call has concluded. It's not weird to cut off mid-wave
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One of the big differences with walking out of a meeting room vs a videocall is that you can still expect to see someone in the hallway after a physical meeting, which is not the case at all in videochat! So we do need a fuller farewell, which a wave can accomplish!
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Replying to @GretchenAMcC
also there's this weird gap in time where you're face to face with everybody, but you're also looking for that Leave Meeting button. This fills the gap!
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Totally worth learning the “leave meeting” shortcut and disabling the confirmation to minimize this existential pain (Cmd+W on Mac, Alt+F4 on Windows, + see screenshot for the confirmation switch)pic.twitter.com/auRCDVkQGQ
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