Robotic hand helps pianists overcome “ceiling effect” (arstechnica.com)
from rwtwm@feddit.uk to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 21:14
https://feddit.uk/post/22977680

I’m learning the piano. I think the development is aimed at those a little above my skill level, but it’s interesting about what it implies about how we learn physical skills.

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Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works on 20 Jan 21:42 next collapse

Now play rush E.

jadedwench@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 16:03 collapse

E! I love watching videos on it. Mark Rober’s player piano was pretty cool.

lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jan 22:10 next collapse

But expert musicians often experience a “ceiling effect,” in which their skill level plateaus after extensive training.

somedev@aussie.zone on 21 Jan 05:51 collapse

Git gud

pdxfed@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 22:44 next collapse

Can it run Crisis?

Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Jan 22:57 next collapse

I feel like Schumann might have something to say about this.

Arkouda@lemmy.ca on 20 Jan 23:10 next collapse

While it has the potential to be a great therapy tool, it doesn’t seem like something that will have much use beyond that. It is a cool idea though.

rowinxavier@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 23:59 collapse

OK so I can definitely see why it would seem pointless or really narrow, but I think this would have actually been very helpful for me and people like me. I have dyspraxia, a coordination disability. Mine is specifically graphomotor, meaning the exact types of movements involved in writing. My handwriting was absolutely terrible, causing pain in my hands (I also had incomplete hand dominance, so yay, both hands sucked equally), inability to express in a written form, and difficulty with tasks like painting, drawing, sewing, and cooking. Over the years the most helpful things were gaining strength and switching to printing only, no running writing at all.

If this tool could help with increasing the feedback from my hands to my brain and also push my fingers through the shapes of letters I think I would have had some benefit. I think people who have had a stroke may also potentially benefit, though obviously it would need thorough testing.

Arkouda@lemmy.ca on 21 Jan 00:27 collapse

Why are you arguing that it would be a good therapy tool with me when I stated that already?

asbestos@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 00:50 next collapse

let him cook

Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works on 21 Jan 02:37 collapse

I think that you mentioned that the application might be narrow, and they wanted to chime in on how it might personally have helped them. They aren’t arguing, just adding.

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca on 21 Jan 01:02 next collapse

I could use that to help get past the “ceiling effect” in my own hobbie…masturbation

swab148@lemm.ee on 21 Jan 03:32 collapse

Skill level plateau

electric_nan@lemmy.ml on 21 Jan 01:38 next collapse

Ever since I was a teenager, I dreamed of a device like this that would “teach” you to play guitar.

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 21 Jan 01:59 next collapse

This will come in handy 🥁

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 03:18 collapse

That’s how they call it in Europe… A handy!

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 21 Jan 10:49 next collapse

📱?

lemonmelon@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 12:46 collapse

📱!

hakunawazo@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 23:42 collapse

Continental Europe perhaps - but if you ask British people if they could give you a handy thats… thats… not about mobile phones.
🍆👊

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 21 Jan 02:07 next collapse

Oh the tables they have turned. The robots are teaching us how to play.

SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 11:01 collapse

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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca on 21 Jan 12:12 collapse

Shoot, I recognize this but can’t place it. Is it Bubblegum Crisis? Or Ghost in the Shell? Or… Hm.

Haha, I figured out how to search properly. It is Ghost in the Shell. Production value is way too high for BC anyway.