To Buzz or not to Buzz: Improving awareness of posture through vibrotactile feedback

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Fast sensory-motor reactions in echolocating bats to sudden changes during the final buzz and prey intercept.

Echolocation is an active sense enabling bats and toothed whales to orient in darkness through echo returns from their ultrasonic signals. Immediately before prey capture, both bats and whales emit a buzz with such high emission rates (≥ 180 Hz) and overall duration so short that its functional significance remains an enigma. To investigate sensory-motor control during the buzz of the insectivo...

Finding the Right Way for Interrupting People Improving Their Sitting Posture

In this paper, we present three different ways of interrupting people to posture guidance. We developed an ergonomically adjustable office chair equipped with four sensors measuring the office worker’s posture. It is important that users do some training after bad posture and be alerted of this; therefore, we implemented three different alert modalities (Graphical Feedback, Physical Feedback, a...

How Do Consumer Buzz and Traffic in Social Media Marketing Predict the Value of the Firm?

Consumer buzz in the form of user-generated reviews, recommendations and blogs signals consumer attitude and advocacy can influence firm value. Web traffic also affects brand awareness and customer acquisition, and is a predictor of the performance of a firm’s stock in the market. The information systems (IS) and accounting literature have treated buzz and traffic separately in studying their r...

Echolocation behaviour and prey-capture success in foraging bats: laboratory and field experiments on Myotis daubentonii.

During prey-capture attempts, many echolocating bats emit a 'terminal buzz', when pulse repetition rate is increased and pulse duration and interpulse interval are shortened. The buzz is followed by a silent interval (the post-buzz pause). We investigated whether variation in the structure of the terminal buzz, and the calls and silent periods following it, may provide information about whether...