2020/12/23 by Sebastian Duerr, Duerr, Sebastian, Josephine van Delden +5 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Animal and Plant Science Education #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT) #Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.12978
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This paper describes three experiments measuring interaction of humans with garden plants. In particular, body movement of a human conducting eurythmic dances near the plants (beetroots, tomatoes, lettuce) is correlated with the action potential measured by a plant SpikerBox, a device measuring the electrical activity of plants, and the leaf movement of the plant, tracked with a camera. The first experiment shows that our measurement system captures external stimuli identically for different plants, validating the measurement system. The second experiment illustrates that the plants' response is correlated to the movements of the dancer. The third experiment indicates that plants that have been exposed for multiple weeks to eurythmic dancing might respond differently to plants which are exposed for the first time to eurythmic dancing.