A Novel Computer-Based Set-Up to Study Movement Coordination in Human Ensembles.
A Novel Computer-Based Set-Up to Study Movement Coordination in Human Ensembles.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00967
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
di Bernardo M
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作者：
Alderisio F;Lombardi M;Fiore G;di Bernardo M
现有的关于人类群体运动协调的实验工作主要研究的是每个被试通过直接的视觉和听觉耦合与所有其他被试联系在一起的情况，因此不可避免的社会互动影响了他们的协调水平。在这里，我们提出了一种新的基于计算机的装置来研究人类群体中的运动协调，从而最大限度地减少参与者之间的社会互动的影响，并在他们之间实现不同的视觉配对。这样做，玩家只能考虑指定子集的运动。这样就可以评估群体中参与者之间的相互联系结构的协调及其自身动态的排他性影响。此外，我们的设置允许部署虚拟计算机玩家来调查人类和虚拟代理之间的二元交互，以及人类和虚拟代理混合团队中的群体同步。我们展示了这种新颖的设置如何被用来研究在不同的相互连接结构下的双组和组中的协调，在存在和不存在作为追随者或领导者的虚拟代理的情况下。最后，为了说明该体系结构的功能，我们描述了一些初步结果。该平台是提供给任何研究人员谁希望展开潜在的机制群体同步在人类合奏和阐明其社会心理方面。
Existing experimental works on movement coordination in human ensembles mostly investigate situations where each subject is connected to all the others through direct visual and auditory coupling, so that unavoidable social interaction affects their coordination level. Here, we present a novel computer-based set-up to study movement coordination in human groups so as to minimize the influence of social interaction among participants and implement different visual pairings between them. In so doing, players can only take into consideration the motion of a designated subset of the others. This allows the evaluation of the exclusive effects on coordination of the structure of interconnections among the players in the group and their own dynamics. In addition, our set-up enables the deployment of virtual computer players to investigate dyadic interaction between a human and a virtual agent, as well as group synchronization in mixed teams of human and virtual agents. We show how this novel set-up can be employed to study coordination both in dyads and in groups over different structures of interconnections, in the presence as well as in the absence of virtual agents acting as followers or leaders. Finally, in order to illustrate the capabilities of the architecture, we describe some preliminary results. The platform is available to any researcher who wishes to unfold the mechanisms underlying group synchronization in human ensembles and shed light on its socio-psychological aspects.