The Movement Lab at Ohio State University, US, is not the only academic institution to have experimentally evaluated ‘Silly Walks’ (see Part 1 of this series). On the other side of the Atlantic at the Department of Motion Science, University of Muenster, Germany, researchers Sook-Yee Chong, Heiko Wagner and Arne Wul have also performed a study. […]
Tag: walking
How do pedestrians avoid collisions?
As you walk city streets, frustrated at why those other pedestrians behave so frustratingly, be aware that scientists are trying to improve the situation, but are making progress only in slow steps. Dr Taku Fujiyama [pictured here, receiving an award], one of the modern masters in this endeavour, is a lecturer at University College London’s Secret […]
History Detectives Interpret a Subtle Clue (Walks/Orgasms)
It’s always a good time to look back and ponder on this study about how some people stroll: “A Woman’s History of Vaginal Orgasm is Discernable from Her Walk,” Aurélie Nicholas, Stuart Brody, Pascal de Sutter, and François de Carufel, Journal of Sexual Medicine, vol. 5, 2008, pp. 2119-24. (Thanks to Sam Petuchowski for bringing […]
Implications of ambulatory rapidity – continued
Following on from the recent Improbable article ‘A Quick Take on Fast Walkers’ which examined an hypothesis linking fast-walking in humans with status display, we draw attention to another publication which demonstrates how walking speeds might be influenced by various other psychological factors. Dr. Chris Kirtley MB ChB, PhD, of the Clinical Gait Analysis lab […]