1) A study led by Caltech researchers found that body movement synchronization between two participants increased after a short session of cooperative training, suggesting synchronous body movement is linked to social bonding.
2) The study measured finger movements and brain activity of participants who were instructed to point fingers at each other. Synchrony between their finger movements and brain activity increased more after a cooperative training session.
3) The findings provide insight into the neural basis of social interactions and have applications like examining compatibility for relationships or partnerships based on measuring implicit social bonding through body synchrony.
A brief introduction to the world of drones, flying robots and the #nodecopter project. I've presented this work at events such as Research Talks, Wajug, Njugbe, Café Numérique, etc.
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A brief introduction to the world of drones, flying robots and the #nodecopter project. I've presented this work at events such as Research Talks, Wajug, Njugbe, Café Numérique, etc.
If you would like to have this presentation featured at one of your events, don't hesitate to contact me by email.
SDL added strategists to a UX team (UX STRAT Europe 2015)Peter Boersma
This presentation shows how UX strategists contribute to the way SDL helps the world's best brands deliver exceptional customer experiences. Using several of our enterprise software product releases as examples, Peter shows how he and his fellow UX strategists are promoting service design and design thinking, how they develop visions and roadmaps for products and cross-product capabilities, and how they collect user and usage data. He also talks about the link between UX Strategy and Product Management, and the future of UX Strategists at SDL.
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Culturing the adolescent brain: what can
neuroscience learn from anthropology?
Suparna Choudhury
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 22 Boltzmannstrasse, Dahlem, D-14195, Berlin, Germany
Cultural neuroscience is set to flourish in the next few years. As the field develops, it is necessary to reflect on what is meant
by ’culture’ and how this can be translated for the laboratory context. This article uses the example of the adolescent brain to
discuss three aspects of culture that may help us to shape and reframe questions, interpretations and applications in cultural
neuroscience: cultural contingencies of categories, cultural differences in experience and cultural context of neuroscience
research. The last few years have seen a sudden increase in the study of adolescence as a period of both structural and functional
plasticity, with new brain-based explanations of teenage behaviour being taken up in education, policy and medicine. However,
the concept of adolescence, as an object of behavioural science, took shape relatively recently, not much more than a hundred
years ago and was shaped by a number of cultural and historical factors. Moreover, research in anthropology and cross-cultural
psychology has shown that the experience of adolescence, as a period of the lifespan, is variable and contingent upon culture.
The emerging field of cultural neuroscience has begun to tackle the question of cultural differences in social cognitive processing
in adults. In this article, I explore what a cultural neuroscience can mean in the case of adolescence. I consider how to integrate
perspectives from social neuroscience and anthropology to conceptualize, and to empirically study, adolescence as a culturally
variable phenomenon, which, itself, has been culturally constructed.
Keywords: adolescence; culture; context; brain development; neuroscience; anthropology
INTRODUCTION
The recent emergence of cultural neuroscience represents
an important challenge to the assumption of universality
of the neural mechanisms associated with perceptual,
attentional and social interaction processes. New data from
functional neuroimaging studies mirror findings from cross-
cultural psychology research, by showing differential brain
activation patterns, in terms of degree and location, among
adult individuals of different cultural groups engaged in
a variety of cognitive tasks (see Han & Northoff, 2008 for
a review). Certainly, with the advancement of neuroimaging
technologies, and the formation of new interdisciplinary
fields such as social neuroscience, neuroethics and most
recently cultural neuroscience, there has been a renewed
interest in ‘neural underpinnings’ of categories, or kinds,
of people. The possibility of seeing the living brain in
action has stimulated a drive to characterize these categories
of people�for example, male and female, Republican
and Democrat, prosocial and antisocial, Eastern and
Western�in terms of neural sign.
The design space of shape-changing interfaces: a repertory grid studyUniversity of Sussex
Publication: Matthijs Kwak, Kasper Hornbæk, Panos Markopoulos, and Miguel Bruns Alonso. 2014. The design space of shape-changing interfaces: a repertory grid study. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 181-190. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598573
Abstract:
Technologies for shape-changing user interfaces are rapidly evolving, but our understanding of the design space of such interfaces is still limited. We report a repertory grid study that aims to describe the design space from the users' point of view by eliciting personal constructs about shape-change. The study is based on six similar-sized, shape-changing artifacts that combine simple sensing of users with actuation that change volume, texture, and orientation. Our results show that the 18 respondents distinguish artifacts on dimensions that differ from those of most models of shape change. For instance, they characterize shape-change in terms of personality, territoriality, and state of mind, in addition to more common categories such as appearance and product properties. We discuss how the dimensions derived from users might be used to design shape-changing interfaces.
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Studies, research papers, & other interesting tid bitsBrian Russell
Over the past 2 years I've done a considerable amount of research in the realms of behavioral, cognitive, and social, psychology, as well as product psychology and the psychology of music, and cognitive neuroscience. Many of the studies and research papers I've aggregated have profound business and consumer implications.
Researchers Discover How the Human Brain Separates, Stores, and Retrieves Mem...RIKICOURSE
Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories based on when they occurred. This finding improves our understanding of how the human brain forms memories and could have implications in memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Culturing the adolescent brain what canneuroscience learn f.docxannettsparrow
Culturing the adolescent brain: what can
neuroscience learn from anthropology?
Suparna Choudhury
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 22 Boltzmannstrasse, Dahlem, D-14195, Berlin, Germany
Cultural neuroscience is set to flourish in the next few years. As the field develops, it is necessary to reflect on what is meant
by ’culture’ and how this can be translated for the laboratory context. This article uses the example of the adolescent brain to
discuss three aspects of culture that may help us to shape and reframe questions, interpretations and applications in cultural
neuroscience: cultural contingencies of categories, cultural differences in experience and cultural context of neuroscience
research. The last few years have seen a sudden increase in the study of adolescence as a period of both structural and functional
plasticity, with new brain-based explanations of teenage behaviour being taken up in education, policy and medicine. However,
the concept of adolescence, as an object of behavioural science, took shape relatively recently, not much more than a hundred
years ago and was shaped by a number of cultural and historical factors. Moreover, research in anthropology and cross-cultural
psychology has shown that the experience of adolescence, as a period of the lifespan, is variable and contingent upon culture.
The emerging field of cultural neuroscience has begun to tackle the question of cultural differences in social cognitive processing
in adults. In this article, I explore what a cultural neuroscience can mean in the case of adolescence. I consider how to integrate
perspectives from social neuroscience and anthropology to conceptualize, and to empirically study, adolescence as a culturally
variable phenomenon, which, itself, has been culturally constructed.
Keywords: adolescence; culture; context; brain development; neuroscience; anthropology
INTRODUCTION
The recent emergence of cultural neuroscience represents
an important challenge to the assumption of universality
of the neural mechanisms associated with perceptual,
attentional and social interaction processes. New data from
functional neuroimaging studies mirror findings from cross-
cultural psychology research, by showing differential brain
activation patterns, in terms of degree and location, among
adult individuals of different cultural groups engaged in
a variety of cognitive tasks (see Han & Northoff, 2008 for
a review). Certainly, with the advancement of neuroimaging
technologies, and the formation of new interdisciplinary
fields such as social neuroscience, neuroethics and most
recently cultural neuroscience, there has been a renewed
interest in ‘neural underpinnings’ of categories, or kinds,
of people. The possibility of seeing the living brain in
action has stimulated a drive to characterize these categories
of people�for example, male and female, Republican
and Democrat, prosocial and antisocial, Eastern and
Western�in terms of neural sign.
The design space of shape-changing interfaces: a repertory grid studyUniversity of Sussex
Publication: Matthijs Kwak, Kasper Hornbæk, Panos Markopoulos, and Miguel Bruns Alonso. 2014. The design space of shape-changing interfaces: a repertory grid study. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 181-190. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598573
Abstract:
Technologies for shape-changing user interfaces are rapidly evolving, but our understanding of the design space of such interfaces is still limited. We report a repertory grid study that aims to describe the design space from the users' point of view by eliciting personal constructs about shape-change. The study is based on six similar-sized, shape-changing artifacts that combine simple sensing of users with actuation that change volume, texture, and orientation. Our results show that the 18 respondents distinguish artifacts on dimensions that differ from those of most models of shape change. For instance, they characterize shape-change in terms of personality, territoriality, and state of mind, in addition to more common categories such as appearance and product properties. We discuss how the dimensions derived from users might be used to design shape-changing interfaces.
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This paper introduces an ethology for understanding student behavior and creating interventions to shape
positive social, emotional, and academic performance. Rooted in the principles of applied behavior
analysis and learning theories, the author suggests a proactive perspective to observing and shaping
student behaviors in a post-pandemic era and provides one tool for flipping and reframing a student’s
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1. 1/25/13 Social Synchronicity | Caltech
12/12/2012
Social Synchronicity
New Caltech-led research finds a connection between bonding and matched movements
PASADENA, Calif.—Humans have a tendency to spontaneously synchronize their
movements. For example, the footsteps of two friends walking together may
synchronize, although neither individual is consciously aware that it is happening.
Similarly, the clapping hands of an audience will naturally fall into synch. Although this
type of synchronous body movement has been observed widely, its neurological
mechanism and its role in social interactions remain obscure. In a new study, led by
cognitive neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), researchers
found that body-movement synchronization between two participants increases
following a short session of cooperative training, suggesting that our ability to
synchronize body movements is a measurable indicator of social interaction.
"Our findings may provide a powerful tool for identifying the neural underpinnings of both normal social interactions
and impaired social interactions, such as the deficits that are often associated with autism," says Shinsuke Shimojo,
Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology at Caltech and senior author of the study.
Shimojo, along with former postdoctoral scholar Kyongsik Yun, and Katsumi Watanabe, an associate professor at the
University of Tokyo, presented their work in a paper published December 11 in Scientific Reports, an online and open-
access journal from the Nature Publishing Group.
For their study, the team evaluated the hypothesis that synchronous body movement is the basis for more explicit
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