Comment by greentext
1 year ago
I tried their 25 inch monitor. E-Ink is such a better experience. I don't feel so jacked in to the matrix when I use it.
The ghosting and refresh rate are holding this technology back though. Definitely not main driver status yet.
LED and LCD screens seem to shift the brain into an agitated frequency. I wish they'd make more progress with E-Ink!
Is this an intuitive personal observation of yours ("shift the brain [...] frequency")? You're on to something there.
You should look up Kaufman et. al.'s "High-Low Split" research:
> Two initial randomized experiments revealed that individuals who completed the same information processing task on a digital mobile device (a tablet or laptop computer) versus a non-digital platform (a physical print-out) exhibited a lower level of construal, one prioritizing immediate, concrete details over abstract, decontextualized interpretations. This pattern emerged both in digital platform participants' greater preference for concrete versus abstract descriptions of behaviors as well as superior performance on detail-focused items (and inferior performance on inference-focused items) on a reading comprehension assessment.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858550
tl;dr: using a screen for cognitive tasks appears to "bring down" your thought process to a lower, concrete level, rendering you unable to perform with a "Big Picture" understanding of the task.