Response to Paul St George

The Teletalker – A Design Researcher’s Tool to Explore Intergenerational Online Video Connectivity in-the-Wild

“…As returns showed, there was an interest in connecting unusual places or locations useful for the service industry. Artistic interventions and telematic experiences such as the telecstroscope [103], the 'Hole in Space' [104], and 'telematic dreaming' [105], which partly inspired this research, attracted intergenerational audiences and created a reciprocal feeling of presence. However, those interventions did not use an audio connection for the other location, an aspect that was important to the author of the TT because it gave participants some form of control; however, the necessity of this was questionable in hindsight.…”

“…Consider undertaking a scoping review in order to synthesize existing and recently published work on intergenerational communication and digital video presence. Like the aforementioned art interventions [103][104][105] operated without sound, it is questionable that hearing each other is necessary when these interaction points are placed in public locations. For communications scholars and gerontologists, but also for policymakers, it might be interesting to video connect, without audio, public intergenerational places such as plazas, shopping malls, or two separate parks in order to observe who and how people interact through the system (e.g., [119]).…”