The Musical Influence on People's Micromotion when Standing Still in Groups

Abstract

The paper presents results from an experiment in which 91 subjects stood still on the floor for 6 minutes, with the first 3 minutes in silence, followed by 3 minutes with mu- sic. The head motion of the subjects was captured using an infra-red optical system. The results show that the average quantity of motion of standstill is 6.5 mm/s, and that the subjects moved more when listening to music (6.6 mm/s) than when standing still in silence (6.3 mm/s). This result confirms the belief that music induces motion, even when people try to stand still. Dataset available at: http://nsddata.nsd.uib.no/webview/index.jsp?object=http://nsddata.nsd.uib.no:80/obj/fStudy/NSD2457