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> spams your @#$!! phone [...], even while you're on your PC I feel like "attention", "presence", and "what device am I `on`" is a poorly exploited concept in
by imglorp 7y ago
> spams your @#$!! phone [...], even while you're on your PC
I feel like "attention", "presence", and "what device am I `on`" is a poorly exploited concept in tech in general.
The right answer probably entails a device using a combination of gaze and most recent input to assert "I'm the attention leader now", then gossiping out to all your devices. Any device hearing that gossip should mute off until it was leader again.
This idea is almost app independent, as an overlay. Phones, at least, seem to have do-not-disturb modes.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoIt's not a trivial problem. For various reasons "last looked at" is as likely to be wrong as right if you have more than a couple of devices. "Last moved" might work better for mobile devices, but there are still going to be many misses.
- codetrotter 7y ago> For various reasons "last looked at" is as likely to be wrong as right if you have more than a couple of devices. Agreed. Even with just a computer and a phone it would not work in my case. I am sitting in front of my computer and that is my main focus, but I pick up my phone all of the time to do things like check on some messages or add the currently playing song to my favorites. If my phone decided that every time I interacted with it that was somehow an indicator that the phone was now my main focus... I think I would probably grow frustrated with that within a very short amount of time.
- bo1024 7y agoOf course our currently attention model is poorly developed, because the companies developing it are literally competing for your attention. Capturing attention translates directly into money or power for them. To realize your vision, we need FOSS-based models where the software serves the user, rather than exploits her.