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Project Report Requirements Title Factors that contribute to Phantom vibrations Abstract Our motivation for our research was to find how people are affected by PVS. We were trying to find out if you uses your phone more and where you keep your phone contributes to experiencing PVS more. We decided to make a survey then we decided to put it on Facebook so that we could get more responses. Out of the 126 responses we got, we decided to only use 100 of them. Our results show that if you put your phone in your pocket you are more likely to experience PVS. Also our results show that the time that you spent on your phone does not have a huge impact on PVS. Introduction - Phantom vibration syndrome (PVS) is when you think you feel or think you hear your phone ring or vibrate. We decided to do this because we both experiences phantom vibration, so we wanted to find out what were the factors that contributed to phantom vibration. The factors that we thought were contributing were: Where you put your phone and how often you use your phone. These seemed like the easiest things to test. I expected that the more you use your phone the more you will experience PVS and if you leave your phone muffled (like in a bag, or pocket) you will experience PVS more often. Our study proved that this was correct. Question and Hypothesis: Does the place you keep your phone and how often you use your phone contribute to how often you experience PVS (phantom vibration syndrome)? If you keep your phone in your pocket and the more you use your phone the more likely to experience PVS? Methods & Materials 1. First we made a survey that asked people about how much time do they spend on their phone a day, have the ever experienced
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Project Report Requirements
Title Factors that contribute to Phantom vibrations
Abstract Our motivation for our research was to find how people are affected by PVS. We were trying to find out if you uses your phone more and where you keep your phone contributes to experiencing PVS more. We decided to make a survey then we decided to put it on Facebook so that we could get more responses. Out of the 126 responses we got, we decided to only use 100 of them. Our results show that if you put your phone in your pocket you are more likely to experience PVS. Also our results show that the time that you spent on your phone does not have a huge impact on PVS.
Introduction - Phantom vibration syndrome (PVS) is when you think you feel or think you hear your phone ring or vibrate. We decided to do this because we both experiences phantom vibration, so we wanted to find out what were the factors that contributed to phantom vibration. The factors that we thought were contributing were: Where you put your phone and how often you use your phone. These seemed like the easiest things to test. I expected that the more you use your phone the more you will experience PVS and if you leave your phone muffled (like in a bag, or pocket) you will experience PVS more often. Our study proved that this was correct.
Question and Hypothesis: Does the place you keep your phone and how often you use your phone contribute to how often you experience PVS (phantom vibration syndrome)?
If you keep your phone in your pocket and the more you use your phone the more likely to experience PVS?
Methods & Materials1. First we made a survey that asked people about how much time do they spend on their
phone a day, have the ever experienced phantom vibration and if they have how often do they experience it.
2. We posted the survey on FaceBook 3. Once we had at least 100 responses we made a graph that showed how the amount of
time people spend on their phones and how it correlates to how often they experience P.V.S
Results
We saw a trend that the more you use our phone the higher the chance of experiencing phantom vibration syndrome, another trend we saw was if you keep it on you like in your pocket your are more likely to feel phantom vibrations.
Discussion
We performed this to inform yourselfs and the public about what causes phantom vibration. Our hypothesis was: Does the place you keep your phone and how often you use your phone contribute to how often you experience PVS (phantom vibration syndrome)? The results show that our hypothesis is partly correct, the place that you put your phone does contribute to how frequently you experience PVS. The other part of our hypothesis was not true, the amount of time you spend on your phone does not change how much you experience PVS. If I were to do this over again I would put more detailed quests about the people taking the survey, that way we have more of a demographic.
Bibliography"Phantom Pocket Vibration Syndrome." Psychology Today. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.
"Phantom Phone Vibrations: So Common They've Changed Our Brains?"NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.
