On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Jeffrey D. Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > one of the things that was brought up - maybe on this list, i can't recall - > with the Minority Report 3D gestural interface was that it would > ridiculously exhausting to stand around all day with waving your hands in > the air with your arms raised up hight than your chest. > > try doing it for 10 minutes. > > jd
Jeffrey, I believe that it would be better than our current "seating and pointing + clicking a mouse all day long" situation. A friend of mine develops a research about the harm of being seatedall day long. One of the key issues that she points out is that the human body was designed to work, and move, as a whole. Just think about mundane actions, like walking. We move the whole body, not only our legs. Every and each part of the body is connected to the whole. When we seat and work with computers in our workstations, the only part of our body that moves are our arms and hands. And that's why we have several injuries on those parts. From Homo Sapiens, we became Homo Sedens. And many "ergonomic" tools only reinforce this, making supports for our hands, arms, even our head! But still, this only makes us stay seated and moving just part of our body. Of course, standing all day can be exhausting, but it's something to think about...I guess an user interface that allows a stand-up position, and that allows us to make wide movements would be better. -- prof. mauro pinheiro universidade federal do espírito santo centro de artes depto. de desenho industrial ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
