Last year, 2013, medical researchers at West Virginia University published the study “Reducing pathogen transmission in a hospital setting. Handshake verses fist bump: a pilot study,” P.A. Ghareeb, T. Bourlai, W. Dutton, W.T. McClellan, Journal of Hospital Infection, vol. 85, no. 4, December 2013, pp. 321–323 (epub September 19, 2013). (We mentioned that here then.) That study says: Handshaking […]
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Handshakes galore – but do they work? An analysis.
Search the archives of any upscale picture library [example] and you’ll find hundreds, perhaps thousands, of photos featuring business-persons earnestly shaking hands. But does handshaking actually have any real effect at, say, a business meeting? For the first time (?) an experimental study has examined whether handshaking might (or might not) help in cooperative dealmaking […]
And no more with the hearty handshakes, they suggest
While some researchers urge the public, especially children, to come in more contact with common dirt — and thus presumably boost their immune systems by exercising them against a wide range of threatening thisandthat — other researchers point adults towards the opposite direction. At present, it seems unlikely that these two research camps will soon join hands. […]
A Preliminary Public Health Look at Hospital Fist-Bumps
On the theory that sometimes little things help lessen problems caused by little things, comes this little paper: “Reducing pathogen transmission in a hospital setting. Handshake verses fist bump: a pilot study,” P.A. Ghareeb, T. Bourlai, W. Dutton, W.T. McClellan, Journal of Hospital Infection, epub September 19, 2013. (Thanks to investigator Marek Hlavac for bringing […]
Car salesmen and psychology profs
A psychology professor is helping his profession share the same level of public esteem enjoyed by car salesmen. A press release from Chevrolet announces: The mathematical formula has been developed for car brand Chevrolet as part of a handshake training guide [1, 2] for its staff to prepare them ahead of the launch of the […]
Turing Test Handshake: The paper
A paper describes the thinking behind the competition to build a Turing-Test-like-passable robotic handshake (which was described here yesterday). The paper is called “A Turing-like Handshake Test for Motor Intelligence.” One or more of the authors — Amir Karniel, Ilana Nisky, Guy Avraham, Bat-Chen Peles, and Shelly Levy-Tzedek — will present it at the EuroHaptics […]
A one-handed Turing Test, sort of
A modified, kinda-sorta version of the Turing Test (to see whether a computer’s behavior is on a par with that of a human), involving a handshake, will be conducted at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The Jerusalem Post reports: Turing proposed that the inability of a human interrogator to distinguish between answers provided by a […]