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The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku

96 points by sebkomianos 12y ago

kyberias 12y ago
What is the rational for breaking web browser scrolling so bad as these type of sites do?
- Jemaclus 12y ago
  Scrolling works fine for me. Not really sure what you're talking about.
  - benologist 12y ago
    He's talking about a different browser or platform or environment to yours.
    - anigbrowl 12y ago
      Maybe he should clarify which one then.
      - logicallee 12y ago
        (sounds like all four of you could use a good forest walk :))
      - benologist 12y ago
        Why? It's only relevant to the person responsible for the site, if they're here they can follow up for details otherwise they're irrelevant.
        shawnz 12y ago
        It was a commentary on web design in general, so I think it would be relevant to any web designer. And I'm sure there are many of those here.
  - ejstronge 12y ago
    He may have run into the PubReader interface[1]. It takes a few minutes to get used to but it's far better than most scientific publishers' web sites. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793346/?report=reader http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793346/?report=...
    - kyberias 12y ago
      You are correct. That was what I was referring to. I didn't even realize there were an option to use the "classic" view. On Windows + Chrome my mouse wheel scrolling does not work very well.
enraged_camel 12y ago
The Onion: California Man's Beach-Walking Hobby is Kinda-Sorta Validated by Science "People used to laugh at me when they read on my online dating profile that I enjoy long walks on the beach. They thought it was some kind of joke," said Michael Anderson, a Southern California resident. "Well, who is laughing now?" -- Seriously though, the therapeutic effects of nature exposure are well-documented, at least anecdotally. I'm glad someone took the effort to scientifically validate them (even though it is a non-double-blind experiment with only 12 subjects).
- TehCorwiz 12y ago
  From the article: "In each experiment, 12 subjects (280 total; ages 21.7 ± 1.5 year)" This would imply that each variable group was composed of 12 participants but overall there were 280 participants.
  - rosser 12y ago
    From the "Experiment Design" section of the paper, emphasis added: "The subjects were randomly divided into two groups. On the first day of the experiments, six subjects were sent to a forest site, and the other six subjects to a city site. On the second day, the subjects were sent to the other type of site as a cross-check." To me, that suggests 12 total subjects, and 280 "trials".
    - alexjeffrey 12y ago
      I believe the implication is that this is the procedure on a per-group basis (considering each group has 12 members).
- ealexhudson 12y ago
  It's "forest versus city" though, so it's not even a great non-double-blind. I would have been more interested in "forest versus museum" or "forest versus canal". I don't think anyone has ever claimed cities as having any kind of calming influence.
XzetaU8 12y ago
Here's another similar experiment but this time only in one mountain village and the (much less in number) participants were middle-aged and seniors. the results are pretty much the same though. http://www.u-ths.ac.jp/wp-files/2014/04/kiyou2013-5.pdf http://www.u-ths.ac.jp/wp-files/2014/04/kiyou2013-5.pdf
kumarski 12y ago
I wish they would be concise.
- jpsierens 12y ago
  That's why there is an abstract. It gives you a summary of the paper.

96 points by sebkomianos 12y ago

kyberias 12y ago

What is the rational for breaking web browser scrolling so bad as these type of sites do?

Jemaclus 12y ago
Scrolling works fine for me. Not really sure what you're talking about.
- benologist 12y ago
  He's talking about a different browser or platform or environment to yours.
  - anigbrowl 12y ago
    Maybe he should clarify which one then.
    - logicallee 12y ago
      (sounds like all four of you could use a good forest walk :))
    - benologist 12y ago
      Why? It's only relevant to the person responsible for the site, if they're here they can follow up for details otherwise they're irrelevant.
      - shawnz 12y ago
        It was a commentary on web design in general, so I think it would be relevant to any web designer. And I'm sure there are many of those here.
- ejstronge 12y ago
  He may have run into the PubReader interface[1]. It takes a few minutes to get used to but it's far better than most scientific publishers' web sites. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793346/?report=reader http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793346/?report=...
  - kyberias 12y ago
    You are correct. That was what I was referring to. I didn't even realize there were an option to use the "classic" view. On Windows + Chrome my mouse wheel scrolling does not work very well.

enraged_camel 12y ago

The Onion: California Man's Beach-Walking Hobby is Kinda-Sorta Validated by Science "People used to laugh at me when they read on my online dating profile that I enjoy long walks on the beach. They thought it was some kind of joke," said Michael Anderson, a Southern California resident. "Well, who is laughing now?" -- Seriously though, the therapeutic effects of nature exposure are well-documented, at least anecdotally. I'm glad someone took the effort to scientifically validate them (even though it is a non-double-blind experiment with only 12 subjects).

TehCorwiz 12y ago
From the article: "In each experiment, 12 subjects (280 total; ages 21.7 ± 1.5 year)" This would imply that each variable group was composed of 12 participants but overall there were 280 participants.
- rosser 12y ago
  From the "Experiment Design" section of the paper, emphasis added: "The subjects were randomly divided into two groups. On the first day of the experiments, six subjects were sent to a forest site, and the other six subjects to a city site. On the second day, the subjects were sent to the other type of site as a cross-check." To me, that suggests 12 total subjects, and 280 "trials".
  - alexjeffrey 12y ago
    I believe the implication is that this is the procedure on a per-group basis (considering each group has 12 members).
ealexhudson 12y ago
It's "forest versus city" though, so it's not even a great non-double-blind. I would have been more interested in "forest versus museum" or "forest versus canal". I don't think anyone has ever claimed cities as having any kind of calming influence.

XzetaU8 12y ago

Here's another similar experiment but this time only in one mountain village and the (much less in number) participants were middle-aged and seniors. the results are pretty much the same though. http://www.u-ths.ac.jp/wp-files/2014/04/kiyou2013-5.pdf http://www.u-ths.ac.jp/wp-files/2014/04/kiyou2013-5.pdf

kumarski 12y ago

I wish they would be concise.

jpsierens 12y ago
That's why there is an abstract. It gives you a summary of the paper.