Imagine an experiment on emotions with a participant sitting at a computer desk watching video clips that induce emotions. This person keeps his/her feet on a wii balance board that allows to track if the feet are kept still or are changing position.
I wonder if anyone knows any studies that explored the psychological interpretation of such feet motor activity. A common sense suggests that people move their feet when they are aroused / nervous. Any scientific research to back-up this notion? Are there any other interpretations?
I will be very grateful even for the tiniest hints.
Here's a study that looks at seated posture with a pressure map--although it does not analyze foot movements so much as the contact between torso and chair. You'd have slightly lower resolution data with the wii board, but perhaps this will help you brainstorm.
http://cognaction.org/rdmaterials/pdfs/papers/dmello_dale_graesser.pdf
Best of luck!
Dear Lukaz,
both colleagues, Damian and wright, gave you some literature suggestion. I would give another kind of information about the technique you can use for detecting feet movements, if you are interested to. Use a 3-D accelerometer posed on the feet that will quantitatively inform you about the kind of movements the subjects is doing. Good luck also by my side.