Harvard study shows BCI-timed breaks boost productivity by 4 hours
Ramses Alcaide · When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable · Aug 31, 2023 · at 17:42
Ramses Alcaide is the co-founder and CEO of Neurable, explaining the scientific research underlying the Enten headphones' focus-tracking algorithm.
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“Yeah, so we did a large study with a professor from Harvard, who's now a professor at Worcester Political, Technical Institute, and he had created this incredible method for identifying the individual's focus, and so what we were able to do, and we did close to a thousand individuals worth of data collection on this, is we tracked people just doing their work, and then leveraging this algorithm that we co-worked with this individual at Harvard, and what we saw is that there was very clear breaks in, in the data where we could see that if we were to recommend them a break at this time point, it enabled them to have three to four hours of higher productivity afterwards, feel more refreshed, reduce their errors in the amount of work that they do instead of just burning themselves out and feeling really, like you know, bad about their day, essentially.”
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