Head tracking is not precise enough from my experimentation. ScrollPods provides a scrolling experience on par to that of a trackpad/mouse in my opinion. Also give horizontal scrolling a try which is turning your head left and right to scroll down/up. The best way to describe it is surprisingly natural. Happy to hear any feedback whether it's constructive or positive.
Because of Spatial Audio.
Give it a try, you will be positively surprised. Especially on scrolling via turning your head horizontally. On the problem you described I implemented a gesture called pause. Meaning if your head exceeds the degrees you have specified it will pause ScrollPods automatically.
Fair comment. It’s a macOS app that lets you scroll hands-free with your Apple headphones (AirPods Gen 3+, AirPods Pro and AirPods Max) by gently nodding your head up or down. You can also set it up to scroll by moving your head right or left. I also strongly agree with your final comment, as I have a lot to share about what it’s like using ScrollPods day to day and the convenience that comes with this. Like sipping an iced coffee with right hand instead of scrolling or sitting 1 meter away from my desk to stretch my legs while reading a presentation. Thanks for reminding me and I will prioritise this in my next blog post.
Because your title mentions EC, I just learned it’s the EC that approves the market authorisation. I always thought it was the EMA but apparently this is “just” a recommendation and in some cases the EC and EMA disagree.
Thank you! With the perception of maturity within HCI, there is a resistance to look at these fundamental building blocks. Instead, they are often taken as fact based on consensus, even though they absolutely can and should be challenged.
My take on the bias toward the “latest craze” is that it's probably a result of finite attention spans, as well as a fear of falling behind, which leaves little space for fundamental concepts.
A good example for ScrollPods was to support scrolling only through up/down head movements initially but many users asked for left/right head turns to map to vertical scrolling as well. Once implemented, the horizontal axis felt much more natural and less tiring. Thinking about it deeper, this makes perfect sense from a biological and anatomical perspective. I mean humans would probably be way more concerned with an ambush from a predator from the side or behind rather than above which shows in our peripheral vision for horizontal versus vertical visual field.
You can’t scroll in one window and type in another window at the exact same time. Your hand has to stop typing on the keyboard, move to the mouse and then scroll. There are many cases where a user would want to scroll and type at the exact same time without needing to keep switching back and forth between the keyboard and mouse. I then describe a solution to this problem. I hope this is clearer.
I think this is a reasonable approach especially on the traceability and thus accountability side. I think if this is successful within Estonia, global buy-in would be next.
One of my favourite words in engineering is resourcefulness.
For simplification, you need to make a Spaghetti Bolognese for 4 people.
Person A gets $10, Person B gets $100.
Person A is forced to be resourceful, look around and do a lot of thinking. Person B can be wasteful and still be in budget.
Reality Nowadays: Person B would contract this out to Person C, who would subcontract to Person D and suddenly there is a huge scope creep and $100 is not enough.
Great catch! I always check whether company Y has the right details about me. If they don’t, I automatically delete and report it. If they do, I let my guard down. Even though it seems so obvious after reading your post, it never occurred to me that company Y might also be compromised to this level. Also, catching something this sneaky would require a lot more entropy than most people would be willing to expend. I wonder what the response from Booking will be for this long-term?
Interesting read, especially as it relates to the product, I'm currently developing. My theories are twofold on this besides what the researchers mention.
For digital content, could this be because our brain deems digital content as lower "value". You consume both high value and low value digital content in the exact same way giving your brain a harder time to understand what is high value and low value, maybe the brain takes a conservative approach on digital content being low value unless proven otherwise. Whereas for physical books your brain attaches a higher value to this and thus you're more alert, maybe?
The second element is the difference in time between turning pages versus swiping on a tablet. Do these extra seconds give your brain more time to digest the information from the previous page(s)? This reminds me of a conversation, I recently had with a friend how TV shows 20 years ago were much more memorable. You watched just 1 episode a week from your favourite show with ads compared to binge watching a show with no ads nowadays. Our theory was that this gives your brain the time to process and digest the new information better.
I'm not from the US but I would think something like this would go directly against the 1st amendment?
Also in general if you're on the losing end of a "fair" vote I assume a decent person would look within themselves to see why they lost, instead of creating a false alternative reality.
From my manufacturing experience on both ends of the spectrum of highly automated versus manual, the best analogy that comes to mind is driving a manual/stick versus an automatic car. If you know how to drive a manual, you can adapt to an automatic very quickly. The reverse, of course, is not true.
There are, of course, many benefits to automation such standardisation, measurability and the list goes on. Plus cuurrently we have this sweet spot
where the workforce contains several generations who have experienced both very manual and highly automated processes. This dual experience is invaluable for investigation and continuous improvement. It makes me wonder what will happen when the workforce consists entirely of operators and engineers who simply press start most of the time.
Unfortunately gaming and cheating go hand in hand. I haven't seen a level with thousands of points yet but every time a suspiciously high number of perfect scores.
Nice! There are some great games on HN, but it’s difficult to catch them all. Shout out to the creator of enclose.horse, I’ve been playing this every day since I saw it on HN.
Correct, the workflow is something like this usually.
You would take contact, settle and active air sample plates within the cleanroom, followed by approximately one day before culturing is initiated in QC. Incubation then typically takes around seven days to cover both bacteria and fungi. You then get the colony forming units value which is the key parameter. Some companies take this further and perform organism identification, which adds additional days to the timeline but great for reactive investigations.
There is also a lag until the data becomes available in a digital format.
This of course differs between companies. Some companies may opt for shorter or longer incubation times, but in general, the key takeaway is that the process takes time.
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