Zoom Fatigue (ZF) - Video conferencing fatigue

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of videoconferencing systems has increased significantly over the past two years. In this context, the phenomenon of videoconference fatigue has been increasingly registered - often shortened to "Zoom fatigue", even though the phenomenon is of course not limited to a specific videoconferencing system. The causes were subsequently discussed in popular journals and also in the scientific literature.

A group of scientists, among them from our university Prof. Döring (FG Media Psychology and Media Conception) and Prof. Raake (FG Audiovisual Technology), focused in a review article on the systematization and modeling of the causes of videoconferencing fatigue. Four key causal dimensions were identified: (1) personal factors, (2) organizational factors, (3) technological factors, and (4) environmental factors. This 4D model is presented in an open-source article in the „International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health“ (Link: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/4/2061/htm).

Nicola Döring, Katrien De Moor, Markus Fiedler, Katrin Schoenenberg, Alexander Raake
Videoconference Fatigue: A Conceptual Analysis
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(4), 2061
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042061

Another article by the author group on Cornell University's arXiv platform discusses primarily the technical aspects of videoconference fatigue (Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01740).

Alexander Raake, Markus Fiedler, Katrin Schoenenberg, Katrien De Moor, Nicola Döring
Technological Factors Influencing Videoconferencing and Zoom Fatigue
arXiv:2202.01740      
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2202.01740