I haven’t tried a mini-stepper! Next time I’m at the gym I’ll check if they have one I can try. Even if it does not work as well, it would certainly be a lot cheaper and more portable.
Untested Speculation: People using steppers/bikes etc. might stop exerting conscious attention to move once they get sufficiently absorbed in their work. A special property of treadmills is that if you stop, you’ll be carried backwards and away from your keyboard—this trains you out of stopping pretty instantly. Steppers/bikes/etc wouldn’t automatically have this property—though perhaps one could mimic the training by adding a “don’t stop!” signalling noise or something. Ultimately I think it’s probably important that the movement not require much conscious attention.
I haven’t tried a mini-stepper! Next time I’m at the gym I’ll check if they have one I can try. Even if it does not work as well, it would certainly be a lot cheaper and more portable.
Untested Speculation: People using steppers/bikes etc. might stop exerting conscious attention to move once they get sufficiently absorbed in their work. A special property of treadmills is that if you stop, you’ll be carried backwards and away from your keyboard—this trains you out of stopping pretty instantly. Steppers/bikes/etc wouldn’t automatically have this property—though perhaps one could mimic the training by adding a “don’t stop!” signalling noise or something. Ultimately I think it’s probably important that the movement not require much conscious attention.