"Enhancing Ergonomics and Agility: Future Innovations in User Interaction"
Jan 8, 2025 - 9:10amSummary: Future improvements for the system include adding a foot pedal as a USB input device to reduce reliance on the right hand, which is currently unergonomic. The user finds it challenging to perform logical thinking and code-related tasks without using the right hand, possibly due to underutilization of a part of the brain. Other possibilities involve making the system more agential, such as allowing commands to be sent, observed, and modified in real-time. Visual interactions, like popping up and closing windows based on gaze detection, are also intriguing, especially if using Moondream for gaze tracking. The user is eager to test these enhancements with both hands.Transcript: So, I guess thinking about future improvements for this, one idea definitely is adding a foot pedal and probably making one as a USB input device. So I can trigger it that way instead of actually having to use my right hand at all. Because that part is quite unergonomic still. I still often want to reach for my controller with my left hand. But the right hand does work okay for that still. It is definitely interesting, like, the experience of finding it much harder to do logical thinking when I'm not using my right hand. It's very real. I feel, like, a bit, like, stunted in some way in terms of my normal capabilities. To think especially and reason about, like, code. Even read code. Maybe some of it's due to, like, navigation is harder. But. Or slower. But I think, like, by not using my right hand very much at all. Part of my brain is just not lighting up in the same way. So, yeah. So, yeah. Um. There are some, like, interesting future possibilities of, you know. Extending the system to be, like, a bit more. Agential in some way or something. Um. Being able to, like, send a command, watch and observe it. Cancel things. Modify things. In flight. Things like this. That are kind of interesting. Um. Where typing kind of doesn't really make sense. But, like, a foot pedal probably does make a lot of sense. In a way. Um. There's also stuff like popping things up visually on the screen. Which would be kind of curious. I mean, especially with Moondream. If it really is able to do gaze detection. If I have a camera running. And I can gaze at different points on my screen. For it to pop up windows. It would be kind of interesting. And to be able to, like, close windows. As well. Um. Yeah. I mean. It's curious. I am really quite interested to use it. With two hands. you
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