Consumers might like variety when it comes to products to buy, but will using a product in a variety of circumstances and in a variety of ways lead consumers to like it more? Probably not, says a new study in the Journal ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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Texting while driving or walking can be dangerous, but people still engage in the behavior without thinking.
Other
Apr 21, 2015
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A year ago, researchers at Bielefeld University showed that their software endowed the walking robot Hector with a simple form of consciousness. Their new research goes one step forward: they have now developed a software ...
Robotics
Apr 1, 2015
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Data collated over seven years from the RESIDential Environments (RESIDE) study supports evidence that neighbourhood walkability (how easy it is to walk around your neighbourhood) is an important determinant of walking for ...
Other
Feb 23, 2015
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Brunel University London design engineering student Cara O'Sullivan's final year project aims to help developing countries make their own disability aids using modular components.
Engineering
Jan 28, 2015
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A device that fits into a shoe harvests the energy made by walking and successfully uses it in watch batteries.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 30, 2014
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Researchers at The Ohio State University have gained new insight into how the body moves when we're walking. They learned everything they needed to know by watching people walk naturally on a treadmill.
Other
Sep 23, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A small team of mathematicians with Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain, has come up with a way to study a network's resistance to failure. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Texting while walking impairs a person's ability to follow a straight line and keep a normal pace, and may pose risks to pedestrians according to a study out Wednesday.
Other
Jan 22, 2014
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A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior of animals from sharks to honey bees, and now for the first time has been shown to describe human hunter-gatherer movement as well. The ...
Ecology
Dec 23, 2013
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