{"id":75,"date":"2009-03-31T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-03-31T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:23:59","slug":"teleconferencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Teleconferencing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I gave a presentation on The Speed of Dark <\/em>over the internet to a group at Howard Community College in Maryland–while sitting on a comfortable couch in Texas.\u00a0 Technology has advanced to this point, and I wanted to try it–besides, I knew I would not be able to travel to Maryland in person in the time-frame they wanted.<\/p>\n

What fascinated me, besides playing with technology I didn’t know, was the degree to which this particular setup messes with sensory input.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a light-bulb moment when I realized that the audio breakup (just enough of one) and the blurriness of the faces looking back at me–blurry enough that I could not see any of the usual cues of facial movement–and the delay between when I said something and when they saw\/heard me say it–all made my experience more autistic than I’d expected.\u00a0\u00a0 I was having to put way more energy and concentration into figuring out their reactions, and what they were saying than usual.<\/p>\n

The organizer sent email telling me that discussion went on in the hall after I “left”, which is a good sign.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope it was as valuable for them as it was for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I gave a presentation on The Speed of Dark over the internet to a group at Howard Community College in Maryland–while sitting on a comfortable couch in Texas.\u00a0 Technology has advanced to this point, and I wanted to try it–besides, I knew I would not be able to travel to Maryland in person in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,12,46,6,28],"tags":[3,7],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-life-on-the-spectrum","category-sensory-processing","category-the-book","category-the-writing-life","tag-autism","tag-sensory-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}