{"id":223,"date":"2006-06-29T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2006-12-07T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T13:04:46","slug":"eyes-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"eyes wide&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img id=\"image221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/06\/reyeyes.jpg\" alt=\"eyes in Reykjavik\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Scientists in Newcastle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news70690716.html\">found out<\/a> that images of eyes attached near an &#8220;honesty box&#8221; in the psychology department&#8217;s common room made people more honest. <!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tonyoursler.com\/\"><img id=\"image222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/06\/oursler2.jpg\" alt=\"work of Tony Oursler\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:5px;\"\/><\/a>The box is for paying for your coffee break drinks and it was significantly fuller when there were images of human eyes nearby instead of images of flowers.<br \/>\nOf course the power of eyes was known before (see for example <a href=\"http:\/\/tonyoursler.com\/\">Tony Oursler&#8217;s<\/a> work to the left) but wether the eyes in front of the shop in Reykjavik do have any positive impact on the customers is not known.<br \/>\nHowever to influence the behaviour of computer users we recomment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytar.de\/art\/isingEyes\">daytar&#8217;s ising eyes<\/a> applet:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<applet style=\"width:300px;height:300px;\" code=\"isingEyes\" archive=\"isingEyes.jar\" codebase=\"http:\/\/www.daytar.de\/art\/isingEyes\"\nwidth=\"300\" height=\"400\" mayscript=\"true\">\n<param name=\"image\" value=\"loading.gif\">\n<param name=\"boxmessage\" value=\"Loading Processing software...\">\n<param name=\"boxbgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<p>To view this content, you need to install Java from <A HREF=\"http:\/\/java.com\">java.com<\/A><\/p>\n<p><\/applet>\n<\/div>\n<p>(you might want to try to move the cursor over isingEyes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Newcastle found out that images of eyes attached near an &#8220;honesty box&#8221; in the psychology department&#8217;s common room made people more honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}