Improbable continues its look at the RO-MAN Workshop 2012. – the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, which was held September 9-13, Paris, France. Part 2 : Change the music and dance There are robots which attempt to dance, there are robots which attempt to speak, and there are robots which […]
Tag: dancing
Attractions of the hip wiggle / Moves like Jagger in Finland
Consider the video below, with particular focus on any anteroposterior axial gyrations of Mick Jagger’s pelvis. Many believe, presumably not least Mick himself, that hip-wiggling manoeuvres are attractive. But how much, exactly? For the first time, results of a study which empirically investigates (and bears Mick’s name) has been published by a team from the […]
Male Avatars’ Dances – How attractive?
Does this ‘Male Avatar’ look attractive to you? What if he were to dance? Maybe you might form an opinion if you saw a video? In any event, you can participate in anonymous web-based research project now underway at the Universität Göttingen, in Germany, where Dr. Fink is a senior researcher. He heads the Evolutionary […]
Mutiny, research about
A University of Washington press release heralds Steve Pfaff‘s research on mutinies: Risking one’s neck for better grog: Mutinies reveal tipping points for collective unrest …Another seemingly odd reason for rebellion occurred in 1793 aboard the Minerva as it returned from the East Indies. Captain Whitby insisted the men exercise by fiddle-dancing, be quiet when […]