Blog your response about the videos you created and the nonobvious things you might be able to take note of to determine more about a person
In order to create our videos for this project, we rode our bikes from Rudder Tower to the C-Store by Sbisa. We then bought an item from the convenient store and returned to the tower on our bike. This made for an interesting video for all the group members. Riding our bike down military walk gave ample opportunity for interaction with pedestrians. This gave many changes for observation of the person wearing the camera and quite a fun task of guessing who it was.
After just watching a few of our group's videos, you start to notice many different things that give away who is wearing the camera. For instance, by seeing the path they took and the pace they rode it, you could start to guess who was the rider. The different directions the person looks is also a hint. You can see if the person is focused on the goal or has a wondering gaze. Another nonobvious thing that could be noticed was the way they let pedestrians travel in front of them. Did they cut them off or let them go first, or just totally go around them altogether. These are just some of the hints that could be viewed when analyzing the videos and the process we took.
I now realize how much more there is about people and the way they interact in general. There are many nonobvious things that this assignment helped point out -- things that would not be otherwise noticed without this extra analysis. Just like in Pennebaker's book "The Secret Life of Pronouns", sometimes it is the small things such as pronouns, or hand gestures and head movement (in the case of the videos), that can tell a lot about a person.
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