Designing for interpersonal motor synchronization

Beyond Simultaneity: Temporal Interdependence of Behaviour is Key to Affiliative Effects of Interpersonal Synchrony in Children

“…Our findings highlight the possibility that, if partner presence and engagement is insufficiently salient in such interactions, the social benefits they are designed to deliver may be reduced or absent. As such, they support the need to understand the minimal conditions required to generate a sense of social context and partner engagement in the virtual environment (Rinott & Tractinsky, 2022).…”

Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration

“…Previous research has investigated how pairs and groups of humans physically entrain with each other during task completion and what effects this has on interpersonal relations. Examples include walking in groups [46], finger tapping to an external stimuli [16], observation of animated movement synchronicity [18], collaborative biking [30], hand-over tasks [32], as well as literature reviews investigating several aspects of human-human entrainment [12,30]. Through an extensive literature review, Cross et al [12] identify 48 studies focusing on the effects of pro-group behaviour caused by interpersonal entrainment.…”

“…In this paper, the term 'system' refers to the collaborating partners. Furthermore, while multiple types of entrainment exist, this study focuses exclusively on physical entrainment between different actors, referred to as interpersonal motor synchronisation (IMS) [30], thereby excluding other forms of entrainment, such as lexical entrainment.…”

“…Achieving temporal synchronisation during collaboration through the process of entrainment leads to a multitude of benefits: it fosters a stronger sense of togetherness and connection [16], enhances the likeability between collaborators [16,20], and promotes a willingness to cooperate [30,46]. Entrainment, its occurrence, and its effects on human collaborators have been explored in various contexts, including dancing [39,47], singing [3,45], walking [44], and body movement [29,38].…”

Fault-tolerant complete synchronization of integer and fractional derivative 6D hyper-chaotic systems with unknown time delay

“…In basic sciences, synchronization indicates that various processes join each other at a specific point or perform similarly. In the recent decades, many scientists have studied synchronization in different contexts, including motor synchronization (Rinott and Tractinsky, 2022), synchronization in computer science (Sarkar, 2021), synchronization of mechanical systems (Zhang et al, 2021), power system synchronization (Choi and Seo, 2021), and synchronization of chaotic systems (Assali, 2021; Sabaghian and Balochian, 2018; Tabasi and Balochian, 2018).…”