Authors: F: Christopher Fahey
Christopher Fahey is an interaction designer, writer at graphpaper.com, speaker at conferences, teacher at the Interaction Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, and a captain of industry as co-founder of Behavior, a New York City interaction design firm. He lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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Conversation is the New Attention
Issue 326April 19, 2011
Baby's got backchannel! If everybody at the conference is staring at their Twitter stream instead of at the person who's doing the speaking, maybe the speaker should meet them halfway. Migrating speaker presentations to the backchannel can empower the audience while enabling the speaker to listen carefully to their responses. The broadcast model of presentations is dead! Long live the conversation model.
