Other awards at the virtual ceremony on Thursday included a research team studying the boredom of teachers and students.
A “smart” toilet that can identify a person from their “analprint” has won one of this year’s spoof Ig Nobel prizes.
The technology comes with test strips that can detect substances such as glucose and red blood cells in the urine, which are associated with various health issues. Dr Park, who won the public health prize, described it as a “humbling experience”, which “serves as a tribute to the researchers, mentors, and visionaries who dare to seek answers in unconventional places”.
Dr Wijnand Van Tilburg, an experimental social psychologist at the University of Essex, who was part of this team, said their studies showed “the mere expectation that classes will be boring caused students to feel bored”. An international collaboration won the communication prize for studying the brains of people who are expert at speaking backwards, some of whom are able to rapidly reverse sentences of up to 12 words.
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