Thu 9 Aug 2007
Emotional bandwidth and communication technologies
Posted by Erik Starck under VOIP, Voice 2.0
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Not much happening on this blog at the moment, but you can read my post on emotional bandwidth over at the GlocalReach blog. Short excerpt:
Humans are social creatures. When meeting someone face to face there’s a huge amount of emotional data transfered between you and the person you meet. Sweaty palms, how you move your arms and legs, what your eyes look at, a smile or a frown, if your face blushes or what your voice sounds like. Even how you smell. They are all signs of your emotional state Рlet’s call them emotional datapoints.
Accessing this emotional state of another person connects you to that person. By looking at a smiling person, you feel a little happier. A child crying makes you feel sad. The ability of a communication technology to transmit those emotions constitutes its’ emotional bandwidth.
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