Three people help B's mother set up her video call setup to look more attentive on camera. They move the browser window directly under the webcam so she looks at the screen instead of away from it, and hide distracting elements to keep her focused.
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Mom, now when we go, okay, now look, you are looking at your screen. You're looking at me. Okay.
I'm looking at you.
Yes. Yeah. But that's not where I need you to look.
No. Okay.
So this is a good thing already. I need you to look at your, I need you to not look at me because you look like you're not paying attention to my question. Right? See how you are paying attention and this'll be different. Okay.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, because when you look away— is there a way to fix that before we start?
Okay, if we could just hide all of y'all's, because my attention span is like that. So if we can just have a secret, you know, just something. Yeah, yeah, just to see. There you go, there you go. Then I'll be okay.
I wonder if I just Move it more to the center where— okay, where it's over your computer somewhere. Like, like, is your computer in the other room? Uh, no.
Can, can you move the actual window of your browser more central, right under your camera?
It is, but there's my screen.
Now that's so much— well, it's better. You're not looking off as much to the, to the left now, like down into left, like, we couldn't make eye contact. The whole point is to look kind of like we're doing that.
