We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Can Plants Sense Humans? Using Plants as Biosensors to Detect the Presence of Eurythmic Gestures.
- Authors
de la Cal, Luis; Gloor, Peter A.; Weinbeer, Moritz
- Abstract
This paper describes the preliminary results of measuring the impact of human body movements on plants. The scope of this project is to investigate if a plant perceives human activity in its vicinity. In particular, we analyze the influence of eurythmic gestures of human actors on lettuce and beans. In an eight-week experiment, we exposed rows of lettuce and beans to weekly eurythmic movements (similar to Qi Gong) of a eurythmist, while at the same time measuring changes in voltage between the roots and leaves of lettuce and beans using the plant spikerbox. We compared this experimental group of vegetables to a control group of vegetables whose voltage differential was also measured while not being exposed to eurythmy. We placed a plant spikerbox connected to lettuce or beans in the vegetable plot while the eurythmist was performing their gestures about 2 m away; a second spikerbox was connected to a control plant 20 m away. Using t-tests, we found a clear difference between the experimental and the control group, which was also verified with a machine learning model. In other words, the vegetables showed a noticeably different pattern in electric potentials in response to eurythmic gestures.
- Subjects
MACHINE learning; HUMAN mechanics; QI gong; GESTURE; HUMAN beings; BIOSENSORS; GREENHOUSES
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2023, Vol 23, Issue 15, p6971
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s23156971