I-Corps: Visualizing Physiological Synchrony

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提供与测量、跟踪和理解人际生理相互依赖有关的软件、培训和服务——这是社会参与的一种生物学衡量标准。尽管这一研究领域可以追溯到半个多世纪以前，但包括可穿戴生理监测仪、先进统计建模和智能手机计算在内的新技术已经引发了其潜在应用的快速发展。科学文献中一致的发现表明，人们自主神经系统之间的相互依赖表明了社会心理过程，包括参与、同理心、情绪感染、领导和团队合作。使用不同的生理测量和分析方法，在广泛的人群、环境和条件中观察到这种生理上的相互依赖性。这样的发现使得我们可以利用人们生理关系的统计模型对社会互动做出解释性结论。这项技术将潜在地造福于为行为健康市场的心理健康和智力/发育障碍部分提供心理治疗的治疗提供者，以及制药行业评估心理健康适应症药物的临床试验研究人员。这个I-Corps项目进一步发展了快速发展的社会心理生理学研究领域的方法，人际生理学。从现象学上讲，当人们互动时，他们的生理活动之间的相互依赖反映了他们的社会关系。这些生理关系发生在双体和群体水平上。由于生理关系的可解释性，有关社会动态的结论可以通过生理学得出。通过这种方法，可以观察和量化不断变化的人际动态，使任何人都能了解一个人何时、如何以及在多大程度上影响另一个人。寻求对自己或他人的人际交往有更多了解的个人或行业可以从这种基于生物学的客观评估方法中受益。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to provide software, training, and services relating to measuring, tracking, and understanding interpersonal physiological interdependence - a biological measure of social engagement. Though this research area dates back more than half a century, new technologies including wearable physiological monitors, advanced statistical modeling, and smart phone computing have sparked rapid advancements in its potential application. Consistent findings in the scientific literature indicate that interdependence between people's autonomic nervous systems are indicative of psychosocial processes including engagement, empathy, emotional contagion, leadership, and teamwork. Such physiological interdependencies have been observed across a wide range of populations, contexts, and conditions, using different physiological measures and analytical approaches. Such findings allow interpretive conclusions to be made about social interactions using statistical models of relationships between peoples' physiology. This technology will potentially benefit treatment providers who deliver psychotherapy to mental health and intellectual/developmental disability segments of the behavioral health market, and to clinical trials researchers in the pharmaceutical industry evaluating medications with indications for mental health.This I-Corps project further develops approaches in the rapidly expanding area of social psychophysiological research, interpersonal physiology. Phenomenologically, when people interact, interdependencies between their physiological activities reflect their social relationships. These physiological relationships occur at dyadic and group levels. Due to the interpretability of physiological relationships, conclusions regarding social dynamics can be made through physiology. Through this method, continuously shifting interpersonal dynamics can be observed and quantified in ways that allow anyone to understand when, how, and to what degree one person is impacting another. Individuals or industries seeking to gain increased understanding of their own or others interpersonal engagement could benefit from this biologically-based objective method of assessment.