Suitable: Only for the healthy
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matrixmannSome annotation for the developers of "modern" technology:
Such things as swiping and pinpointing on touchscreens are very uncomfortable for people with clumsy or damaged fine motor skills.
If you already curse about hitting the space in between two keys on the keyboard too often, or directly not the keys that you wanted to push, and if you already hit the wrong places with your mouse cursor too many times on the screen on a normal computer, you'll cheer about a device that expects from you to just work with a single finger all the time.
In other words: This technology is definitely only developed for healthy people. Not for people with handicaps.
Such things as swiping and pinpointing on touchscreens are very uncomfortable for people with clumsy or damaged fine motor skills.
If you already curse about hitting the space in between two keys on the keyboard too often, or directly not the keys that you wanted to push, and if you already hit the wrong places with your mouse cursor too many times on the screen on a normal computer, you'll cheer about a device that expects from you to just work with a single finger all the time.
In other words: This technology is definitely only developed for healthy people. Not for people with handicaps.
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Date: 13 October 2018 04:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 October 2018 05:00 pm (UTC)Remember what public libraries where: "Reading in a silent atmosphere". That wasn't there for nothing...
People can concentrade better on contents if they can just gather their thoughts and concentrate.
Another thing I'm thinking about in connection with that: You probably already heard it somewhere that some people have troubles with sleeping if they've stared on monitors too recently before they go to bed?
They say, the bright light of monitors (such is an ebook reader too) obstructs the production of a substance called "melatonin", which is a hormone strongly connected with switching human "active mode" to "sleep mode". Like the body still is left to believe it's daytime, even though it might be physically tired and all.
People affected by that, they advise to stop watching TV or using the computer or the mobile phone half an hour at least before planning to go to bed. Then they supposedly get better along with the shift.
Don't know how many are affected by that, but since more and more monitors pop up in peoples' lives, it's said to be a phenomenon that spreads - in combination with all the other stress that people have to get along with day by day.