Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
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Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#2Will this be effective without some form of punishment as a deterent?
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#3More bans like this may well be a big driving force in the adoption and more rapid progression of AR tech
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#4More bans like this may well be a big driving force in the adoption and more rapid progression of AR tech
For smartphones!? I can only imagine that being more hazardous.
Do you notice how we negotiate paths when we are walking? body language, with particular emphasis on the position of the head and eyes. Try this experiment: as you walk towards someone without a clear path to their left or right - walk with intent to go slightly one side with your eyes/head slightly to the other, usually your intent comes across far more ambiguous and requires more negotiation than usual... now imagine people are not looking where they are going (literally), while appearing to be looking where they are going. And I don't buy that AR magically solves concentration by keeping your field of view.
At least with those zombies staring down it's clear they are distracted so you can ignore their body language.
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#5What will be more effective in the end is if walking (also: eating, sitting at a table, etc.) while immersed in a phone finally becomes uncool with young people. So far it doesn't seem to happen (unfortunately).
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#6Will this be effective without some form of punishment as a deterent?
There are quite a few rules and local laws in Japan that don’t carry any punishment or, indeed, aren’t even enforced but are still followed. Making it law in this case is more of a nudge than anything else. Honestly, it’s much more scary here to be stared down by a group old people than the police.
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#7More bans like this may well be a big driving force in the adoption and more rapid progression of AR tech
For smartphones!? I can only imagine that being more hazardous. Do you notice how we negotiate paths when we are walking? body language, with particular emphasis on the position of the head and eyes. Try this experiment: as you walk towards someone without a clear path to their left or right - walk with intent to go slightly one side with your eyes/head slightly to the other, usually your intent comes across far more…
Smart glasses obviously.
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#8Will this be effective without some form of punishment as a deterent?
In Japan, it'll probably still be somewhat effective without explicitly stating a punishment.
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#9More bans like this may well be a big driving force in the adoption and more rapid progression of AR tech
For smartphones!? I can only imagine that being more hazardous. Do you notice how we negotiate paths when we are walking? body language, with particular emphasis on the position of the head and eyes. Try this experiment: as you walk towards someone without a clear path to their left or right - walk with intent to go slightly one side with your eyes/head slightly to the other, usually your intent comes across far more…
I'm sure I'm showing my age when I say that I really don't like walking in cities (or anywhere really) with ear buds/headphones in. It's too much isolation from the environment and I'm just not comfortable with it. I imagine that's a minority option though and many will claim that the isolation really isn't a problem with the right earpieces. But I can only speak to how I personally feel.
Re: Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
#10In general I find people using their phones whilst walking to be a nuisance, but I'm still not particularly in favour of this.
There are at least two legitimate use cases that don't cause too many problems:
1. Using your phone as an actual phone (i.e., an audio only conversation with the thing held to your ear, or with a headset).
2. Using it as a navigational aid. If I'm not too sure where I'm going I'll often use either Google or Apple Maps to set up directions before I start walking. I'll then put the phone in my pocket and just pull it out from time to time to check I'm still heading in the right direction.
The real problems are caused by people reading, playing games, having video calls, or filming themselves (or others) whilst walking. They tend to dawdle, lose awareness of their surroundings and others around them, and in general behave like absolute goobers. Doing these things whilst navigating stairs or escalators is particularly aggravating - not to mention dangerous.
This doesn't appear to be limited to any particular demographic or age group that I can see.