{"id":218260,"date":"2017-07-05T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=218260"},"modified":"2017-07-05T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T06:25:56","slug":"texting-makes-you-walk-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/218260-texting-makes-you-walk-funny.html","title":{"rendered":"Texting makes you walk funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglia.ac.uk\/news\/its-good-to-talk-but-it-changes-how-we-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New research<\/strong><\/a> published in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that mobile phones are changing how we walk.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Anglia Ruskin University investigated how mobile phone use affects where people look and how they negotiate a floor-based obstacle in their walking path.<\/p>\n<p>Participants walked towards and then stepped over the object while wearing an eye tracker and motion sensor.<\/p>\n<p>This was done while writing a text, reading a text, talking on the phone, and without a phone.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists found that when using a phone, people look less frequently and for less time at the obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the relative amount of time spent looking at the obstacle was reduced by up to 61%.<\/p>\n<p>Phone users also adopted a cautious and exaggerated stepping strategy, which involved lifting their lead foot higher and slower over the obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that writing a text results in the greatest adaptations in visual search behaviour and walking style, compared to reading texts or talking on a phone.<\/p>\n<p>When writing a text, the time taken to clear the obstacle &#8211; compared to not using a phone &#8211; was 40% slower.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/215074-drive-dont-talk-or-text.html\">Drive \u2013 don\u2019t talk or text<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research published in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that mobile phones are changing how we walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":218264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[44298,44296,7453],"class_list":["post-218260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-anglia-ruskin-university","tag-mobile-phone","tag-texting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218330,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218260\/revisions\/218330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}