Bored ?

We tend to get bored somewhere in our day, especially people who like to be busy bodies the whole time.  Boredom is no state secret and it is quite obvious to fellow friends, family of work colleges when we display this emotion upon our face and body. 

What kind of language does your body speak when you're bored?  

Do you:
* stare around the room you are in?
* do you look at your watch a lot?
* repeat actions like tapping your toes, fidgeting around with everything you're not suppose to be busy with?
* show signs relating to tiredness like leaning against a wall, slouching in you chair or yawn?

These reactions above we might want to make obvious and sometimes not, like when you're attending a very important meeting - it would be inappropriate to show your boredom.

The reason for our boredom is obviously our lack of interest.  If it's not a subject we as individuals can relate to or find interesting we tend to get distracted.

What bores you?

Fear? / Anxious? / Nervous?

How many times have you been scared/ afraid in your life?

As a child it could have been for the dark, funny faces, clowns and as we grow older and get to learn who we are we start to find out what gets us anxious and our heartbeat racing.  Fear occurs as soon as our basic needs get threatened.

It might be spiders, an important interview, a crowd full of people, exams, when you like someone, heights, the unknown, financial doubt, insecurities etc.

Your body has a way of reacting towards that object or subject that gets your heart pumping.  There are a few other symptoms your body can portray such as:
A cold sweat, pale face, dry mouth, speech errors, fidgeting, trembling lip, damp eyes and avoiding eye contact.

We would like to know how your body reacts to fear?

Do you need anger management?

What signs might you be giving?

Are your:

• Neck and/or face red or flushed?
• teeth bared and are you snarling?
•  fists clenched?

•  Do you have the tendency of leaning forward and invade another persons space? you may deliberately threaten a person by invading their body space.

 

• Do you show other signals of aggressive body language like:

• Facial signals

  A lot of signals come from the face from disapproving frowns and pursed lips to sneers and full snarls. The eyes can be used to stare and hold the gaze for long period. They may also squint, preventing the other person seeing where you are looking at that moment.
  

  Attack signals

  When somebody is about to attack, they give visual signal such as clenching of fists ready to strike and lowering and spreading of the body for stability. They are also likely to give anger signs such as redness of the face.  This would commonly happen before a fight.
  

  Exposing oneself

  To expose yourself is another form of aggression. It is saying 'Go on - I dare you (motivating the person to carry on). I will still win.' It can include not looking at the other person, crotch displays, relaxing the body, turning away etc.
  

• Use of power body language (Touch -"HAPTICS":
  Touching is a powerful symbol as we've seen in previous post (haptics). Touching people can be threatening, and is used by leaders to demonstrate power.
  
  The handshake is, of course, a touch, and can lead to further touching, such as the elbow grip and patting shoulders and back.
  
  If you'd like a laugh check out the movie: Anger Management
  
  
  

Haptic Feedback - technology

Ever heard of haptic feedback? 

Here we start to mention technology.  Ever notice how the world of touchscreens are starting to take over?  Touchscreens would not exist without the human sense of touch. What a privilege to be able to touch.

Haptic feedback can also be seen as an user interface or simly haptics.  Haptic feedback is the use of the sense - touch - in a user interface to provide information to the end user.

When we communicate and physically touch we sometimes intend to send another message as not initially intended. The same counts when technology like mobile phones come into the picture.  When you want a specific function or information to appear you need to touch the screen (applicable to touch interfaces) to make that happen.  A user can also set vibration functions to activate when a touch action is used.

Touch can take place between people or you and your technological device like your iPad or iPhone ect. Touching is all around us. Can you imagine a world where we wouldn't be able to touch?

HAPTICS - Culture facts

Interested in some interesting facts that shed light on culture differences -

Touching is infrequent in western cultures which makes it even more significant when it happens. 

French and Italians for example, tend to touch frequently even continuously while walking, whereas the British prefer not to touch at all. At sporting events and especially in celebration of victory or success, such as scoring a goal or point, touching among male athletes is permitted whereas in the dressing room, a hands-off policy is the norm. 

India, Italy, Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, Spain, Russia and parts of Asia are cultures that accept touching more often whereas no touching cultures includes Germany, Japan, England, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Estonia, Portugal, Northern Europe and Scandinavia.

In the workplace, touching is fairly uncommon. We therefore use the handshake as a universal form of touching to avoid offending others. More intimate forms of touching sometimes occurs such as a friendly pat on the back to display encouragement but generally speaking, touching at work should be kept to a minimum. 

Cultures around the world, different perspectives on the subject of touching

HAPTICS

We're going to start taking a look at haptics.  Haptics is originally a Greek word that represents the study of our sense of touching in a medical, biological or technological manner.

Through touching we communicate.   Touching is one of the most common ways we communicate with one another.  Touching is a direct result of allowing other people to enter our personal space and feeling comfortable with it.  

Touch is the most real, sincere and emotionally connected manner to experience and sense the world around us. 

We receive a large amount of information from our skin when the environment or other people interact with us.  Studies have shown that babies who lack a sense of touch have a low sense of survival, in contrast to other senses.  Touching is actually the first sense we develop when we're born.

On the next post we'll be checking out the types of touch there are.  Don't miss out!

The story below the brow -

It's what you don't say that matters...

Interesting facts on the different directions your eyes follow with Robert Phipps.

The eyes

What do you think about this? and are your eyes dwelling around right now?