Problem

Covid-19 has forced companies to work from home and think of other alternatives such as hybrid schedules without implementing a proper strategy on face-to-face communication. There are video communication tools such as Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams. Even though those tools can help solve this face-to-face communication in a covid/remote era, there might be people who want something else. There might be people who want to connect face to face without having a specific schedule or having the option to not show their face but still communicate with team members (or an online community).

Background

Since late 2019, Covid-19 has still made its presence known by changing the way we live and work while other mutations of the virus spread across other countries. This has forced everyone to think creatively in how they communicate and conduct business. This tool has three goals, to help remote teams with a lack of communication, to help remote teams feel less lonely, and to help remote teams with a complementary app to quickly (not meant to replace messaging platforms) send videos. This tool focuses more on talking than typing (versus Slack) and 100% asynchronous communication (versus coordinated schedules like Zoom).

Research Goal

We want to know whether or not users would be interested in using an asynchronous video communication application. We also want to understand the way remote teams communicate, this will help with the features that would encourage these users to use the app on a daily basis.

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