The thing about physical abstractions (like gestures) versus visual abstractions (like buttons) is that physical actions can be absorbed into muscle memory.

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"Video conferencing does not give participants the physical sensation of being in the same shared space, and certainly not the physical capability to actually carry out actions in that space, " said Prof Mandayam Srinivasan from UCL who was part of the research team behind the experiment.

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Swiping a card, pinching a map, or tapping a photo are all based on actions we know from the physical world.

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If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.

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But it does not tell us anything to justify changing the current historical view of Richard: that the Tudor historians and propagandists, culminating with Shakespeare, may have exaggerated his physical deformities and the horrors of Richard's character, but he remains a criminal king whose actions wrought havoc on his realm.

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