ESU professor working on study to see if people can learn to juggle using virtual reality
"He was saying that this is the best thing in the world to learn to juggle..."However, you can adjust the physics."
Butler has a doctorate in human motor learning and studies how people learn movement, so this was right up his alley.
Butler and his colleagues, after looking around the academic world and finding that no one else was doing a study like this, started their study with about 12 senior citizens as subjects.
So far, early results seem favorable, he said.
Some of the participants, Butler said, have issues such as Parkinson's, and told him they felt the exercise could benefit their conditions.
"Whether or not that's true, I certainly am not in a position to say at this point in time. But it's an interesting idea," he said.
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