• chiu@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Automatic opening doors but they don’t open by a proximity sensor, they open when you press the button. This is the optimal solution as the door doesn’t open needlessly but still allows for ease of access.

    Ordering machines, where all your menu options are clearly listed and priced. Pressing on a combo of buttons will print a receipt which you can sit down and show the staff/cook your order.

    Water (hot and cold) tapped straight to your dining table for self serve drinks.

    Unfortunately becoming less applicable with the smartphone domination finally reaching Japan, but their flip phone technology.

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      taco bell in particular is embracing the kiosks and it’s wonderful. they have signs in the lobby saying ‘order at the kiosk’ even. and why wouldn’t you? why do people in the US have this pig-like stubbornness where they must have a human stand there and ‘PeRsONaLIze tHE iNtERacTion’ or some shit

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        i just want to pay cash, otherwise i prefer kiosks… but i see a future of hostile, nagging UI design…
        like at some stores self checkout, you have to click 80 different confirmations and give your phone number, email and social security number…

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          The auto kiosks in Japan take cash and they are also mechanical and not touch-screen based (at least in most stores). They are tactile buttons. :D

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        Because I don’t want to be bombarded with ads and “did you consider this offer” shit and take 5 minutes to use some usability nightmare? Because I do not want to touch a greasy screen that 362 people used today without washing their hands after taking a shit? Because I do not support corpo greed that will not rest until every employee has been fired?

        “BUt I LiKe tOucHy fLaSHy SCreeNy!!”

        What are you, morons?

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          “Would you like fries with that?”

          “Would you like to supersize that?”

          “We have an offer on…”

          “Paying by card? Type your pin into that well used machine. Cash? OK hand me the piece of paper that have touched hundreds of hands and maybe nostrils”

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            Maybe my people are bad at their jobs but my fast food people just take the order without any real upsell most of the time. PIN is only for debit. I almost never have to actually touch payment controls these days. NFC tap and away.

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          Why should I have to do everything myself when I’m at a commercial establishment? Why is interaction with a human a bad thing? I absolutely hate self checkout for the same reasons. Quality of service is valuable and humans benefit from interaction.

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      Water (hot and cold) tapped straight to your dining table for self serve drinks.

      This in particular sounds awesome, speaking as a heavy water drinker who always feels like a bit of a heel having to pester busy wait staff to come over and refill my water glass a bunch of times.

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        I love places where you can just get it yourself. Rare here in North America, but all over the place in Korea

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      I often see buildings in Japan that have a manual sliding door followed by either a push button or proximity automatic door. If I am going to have to open one door myself, I might as well open both. If one is automatic, the other might as well be too.

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      Automatic opening doors but they don’t open by a proximity sensor, they open when you press the button. This is the optimal solution as the door doesn’t open needlessly but still allows for ease of access.

      Ordering machines, where all your menu options are clearly listed and priced. Pressing on a combo of buttons will print a receipt which you can sit down and show the staff/cook your order

      I see those all the time over here in my European country.

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      The hot and cold water thing is not common at all. A few sushi places and bars have it. But it’s quite rare tbh.

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      Automatic opening doors but they don’t open by a proximity sensor, they open when you press the button.

      I think it would be cool to have a hybrid system where you can wave/nod/bow to a sensor to activate it, but also implement an open standard frequency that can trigger it so people with reduced mobility can mount a transmitter on a wheelchair/cane etc. or just use their cellphone. Would eliminate having any external equipment that would be exposed to weather or vandalism and is one less common surface for the public to have to touch.

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        I work in a pharma research facility, so people can have literally any disease or chemical on their hands, so we have a lot of doors with hand wave sensors.

        Just wag your mitts in front of it, and the door opens. They’re on the wall a few steps before the door, so the door is usually open by the time you get to it.

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          I work in a hospital, we use these long vertical elbow buttons or rfid readers with a badge which is also touchless.

          And if I need to push a button like in elevators, I use the knuckle of my ring finger.

          Some even have this little touch tool on their Keychain to touch screens or buttons.