Holding Together
Channel: Co-Cognition
Date: 2021-05-31

In this episode of Co-Cognition you can get insight into how connecting to others physically can affect your balance. Our surprising findings show that when you balance with someone else you can achieve more stability than you’d be able to get on your own. Understanding how this type of coordination works could lead to advances in the way that you interact with haptic technology in the future.
 
First, we show you a way in which failure to coordinate can cause problems for yourself and those around you. Next we’ll help you see how complex the mechanics involved in trying to achieve balance together are when there are two or more people coordinating together. Then we’ll show you the surprising data we collected about the ways in which we are able to coordinate our minds and bodies to achieve greater balance than we could on our own. You can take a closer look at the complexity of this type of coordination and we’ll tell you why it works the way it does. Finally, you’ll see some ways in which better understanding of this effect will influence the way you interact with technology in the future.
 
For more information on the research that we do, please visit us at:
Crowd Cognition Lab: http://crowdcognition.net
CVBE Lab: http://cvbers.net
 
Based off original research by:
Dardo Ferreiro, Chris Frith, and Bahador Bahrami
 
Take a look at our research at https://bit.ly/2ShO6Gw


Featured audio tracks:
 
Suspension by Kjartan Abel
Bio and contact info: https://kjartan-abel.com
Free download: https://freesound.org/s/531854/
 
Downtime by Ketsa
Bio and contact info: https://kesta.uk
Free download: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/the-calling/downtime