Piano Stairs - Making Music While You Climb!
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Would people choose to climb rather than take an escalator if the stairs were more fun? While this may sound like a no-brainer to kids, it is not as clear-cut with adults. Hence the folks at car company Volkswagen, decided to try this fun stunt and the results, as most kids would say - were quite predictable.
The experiment was conducted at the Odenplan station in Stockholm, Sweden's capital city, where workers toiled all night to transform the staid subway stairs into a magical working piano keyboard.
Now by simply walking up the stairs, everybody could make amazing music. They soon noticed that commuters who normally headed straight for the escalator, paused for a minute, intrigued by the new stairs and then actually climbed them, some even jumping from one stair to the other. A two-day observation of the commuter's behavior revealed a sixty six percent increase in usage of the stairs - A no-brainer as most kids would say.
The company calls the phenomenon, 'fun theory' - using fun to change people's behavior for the better', and plans to conduct many more similar experiments, which they will post on a soon-to-be-launched website called 'fun theory.com'. We for one can't wait to see what they come up with next!
sources: dailymail.co.uk,senselost.com
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- mileyalmost 15 yearsthat is awsome i wish i could do it and hi star !!!!!!!!
- =] DreAMLand<3almost 15 yearsThis is so cool...imgaine if they put these in our schools and malls...that would be SOOO awsome!!!
angel062601almost 12 yearsand it will save a lot more energy too because at my old school riverside intermedite had an elorvator and after school or before any buses erived kids used the elorvater and not the stairs and those stairs would help. P.S.(plus who could blame them there are lot of stairs in the first place.)
- k15almost 15 yearsi like the piano stairs
- joejuveralmost 15 yearswow that is so cool i would want to do thatjust walk on piaao stairs and mamke m usic
- andy Flahertyalmost 15 yearssame with me
- emmaalmost 15 yearsThat's so cool!
- nikkyalmost 15 yearsi agree with every one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Jason almost 15 yearscool
- Jason almost 15 yearsthe piano stars where so cool!!! And I shere wish that I could go on them, who knew how they could think of such stairs, any way it would be like a life time dream to have stairs like that everywhere and my piano teacher would love seeing that video and I've got to email it to her, my email is jsnwilson09@gmail.com, bye!!!
- Mickeyalmost 15 yearsI like piano stair and it's cooooooooooool!!!!!!!!11
