UM atUM [S03-ep11]: The Walk Home
This week on *AUM science*, Benoit Bardy, a researcher at the Euromov Digital Health in Motionlaboratory , breaks down how we walk in our houses and apartments. For our latest report from SMEL, Sébastien Mas introduces us to Medimeer, an experimental platform for marine ecology. A program co-produced with Divergence FM and broadcast every Wednesday at 6 p.m. on 93.9.
Christmas is fast approaching, and before we can all finally gather around a well-stocked table, perhaps you spent this weekend decorating—or figuring out how to fit a 1m50 Christmas tree into a 60 m2 apartment that’s already crammed with stuff.
You’ve surely noticed on such occasions how every rearrangement of your interior space creates a sort of dissociation, as if your body were on autopilot, guided by a memory in which small domestic routes, main thoroughfares, paths, and detours are etched—ones we only become aware of when an unexpected obstacle reveals, often in a startling way, the mechanics of this intimate map.
Our guest today is something of a walking wizard. Benoit Bardy, a researcher at the Euromov laboratory, has been studying how we move around indoors—specifically, how we navigate obstacles in our homes, whether it’s a table or even a noise. Together with his team, he has just published an article in the journal Frontiers titled “Obstacles Shape the Way We Walk at Home.”
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In the second half of the program, we conclude our series of reports on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment Station with its director, Sébastien Mas, who also heads the Medimeer marine ecology experimental platform. This facility, which is unique in France and throughout the Mediterranean region, offers cutting-edge scientific expertise in conducting controlled experiments in the field of marine biology.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Report: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Director: Alice Rollet
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