Week 30 Summary

This week, I began testing how being conscious of your actions may make a difference in the actions that people do. I am going to start out simply with a blinking test, using the neurosky headset. I first recorded their normal blinking over a time frame of 2 minutes. Then, I asked them if they think their blinking is either too fast or too slow. Once they are conscious of their blinking, they will start to either speed up or slow down their blinking. Just to make my phrasing of the words not affect the outcome too much, I tried the test multiple times with varying phrases to see which is the best. Once I got a certain phrase down, I used this very phrase with all of my subjects. I only got to go through a small population of subjects, although next week I would love to get through more. I would like to try a new behaviour other than blinking, such as sitting down, standing up, etc... I would also like to see how easily behaviour can be influenced, by behaviours by people in the surroundings.