Called the FlowLight, it gathers basic information about your keyboard and mouse activity and feeds that to a physical device, a light that sits at your workstation or atop your cubicle wall and changes color according to your interruptibility: red (busy), pulsing red (super busy), yellow (wishing you were busier), and green (checking Facebook).
Investigators blinded to the treatment scored the recorded images for mouse activity and mouse induced movement of the food pellets.
In the field, our curiosity was aroused when we noticed accumulations of small objects – shells, leaves etc in the vicinity of wood mouse activity, and pilot studies in captivity revealed that these mice seemed eager to transfer plastic discs around their enclosures as they explored.
However, the reduction in mice activity and reaction to noise may be due to depressant and sedative effect on the central nervous system [ 18].
Keyboard and mouse activities were defined as any series of keyboard events (keystrikes) or mouse events (mouse movement, scrolling, or button clicks), respectively, with less than 2 seconds of inactivity between.
All measured trapezius muscle activity and shoulder, head, neck, and torso postures were separated into the median and range of amplitude (for trapezius muscle activity) or range of motion (for postures) during all computer activity, keyboard activity only, mouse activity only, and idle activity only as described in [ 22].
The highest prevalences observed were 48% of the students lifted their middle finger during mouse drag activities, and 23% extended their middle finger while moving the mouse.
Continuous haemodynamics and mouse activity were gathered using blood pressure telemetry (PhysioTel PA-C10 Pressure Transmitter for Mice and Data Exchange Matrix Data Sciences Internationall, St. Paul, USA).
WINSCR: Move keyboard and mouse activity detection code into their own thread.
Trajectory of mouse activity was analyzed by video documentation and manual tracking.
