'Insole that tickles your feet' that reduces stress just by wearing it is born
Everyone wants to live a stress-free life, but everyday life is stressful. The 'tickling insole' developed by a New Zealand research team is strange at first glance, but it is a device that incorporates the power of 'laughter' to reduce stress.
TickleFoot: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Novel Foot-Tickling Mechanism That Can Evoke Laughter | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Scientists make foot-tickling device that fits inside shoes to relieve stress
https://www.zmescience.com/science/scientists-make-foot-tickling-device-that-fits-inside-shoes-to-relieve-stress/
Many people just laugh when they tickle their armpits or soles, but they don't enjoy being tickled. When humans are tickled, the autonomic nerves and hypothalamus are stimulated, and emotional emotions such as struggle / flight reaction and pain occur.
Laughter caused by tickling and laughter caused by fun are fundamentally different phenomena, but both have been found to be effective in relieving stress significantly. So Don Samita Elvicigala and colleagues at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand have developed a device that tickles the soles of the feet with magnetically-powered brushes to find out which points on the soles are most effective in inducing laughter. I decided to investigate.
Below is a movie of 'Tickle Foot', a device that tickles the soles of the feet developed by El Vitigara and others.
TickleFoot: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Novel Foot-tickling Mechanism that Can Evoke ... --YouTube
TickleFoot is an insole with 'moving protrusions' that tickle spots that are particularly vulnerable to tickling on the soles of the feet. The movie shows the protrusions on the insole moving around.
In developing TickleFoot, El Vitigara and colleagues first asked the subject to sit on a board with moving protrusions and analyzed the position and movement of the most laugh-inducing protrusions.
Then, based on the analysis results, the position and movement of the protrusions were determined, and the drive mechanism was driven by batteries and loaded into the insole.
When the subject put on the shoes with the completed Tickle Foot and measured the effect, the effect of producing laughter was firmly demonstrated.
By replacing the protrusions with balls, you can switch from the mode of reducing stress by laughing to the mode of stimulating the acupoints and relaxing.
El Vitigara and colleagues argue that TickleFoot is not just a stress-relieving device, but a great device for studying how the brain works with laughter in combination with brain scanning techniques.
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