Journal Article

FZJ-2020-04379

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Unobtrusive tracking of interpersonal orienting and distance predicts the subjective quality of social interactions

Lahnakoski, J. M. (Corresponding author)FZJ* ; Forbes, P. A. G. ; McCall, C. ; Schilbach, L.

2020
Royal Soc. Publ. London

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/26140  doi:10.1098/rsos.191815

Abstract: Interpersonal coordination of behaviour is essential forsmooth social interactions. Measures of interpersonal behaviour,however, often rely on subjective evaluations, invasivemeasurement techniques or gross measures of motion. Here,we constructed an unobtrusive motion tracking system thatenables detailed analysis of behaviour at the individual andinterpersonal levels, which we validated using wearablesensors. We evaluate dyadic measures of joint orienting anddistancing, synchrony and gaze behaviours to summarize datacollected during natural conversation and joint action tasks.Our results demonstrate that patterns of proxemic behaviours,rather than more widely used measures of interpersonalsynchrony, best predicted the subjective quality of theinteractions. Increased distance between participants predictedlower enjoyment, while increased joint orienting towards eachother during cooperation correlated with increased effortreported by the participants. Importantly, the interpersonaldistance was most informative of the quality of interactionwhen task demands and experimental control were minimal.gathered during minimally constrained social interactions are particularly sensitive for the subjectivequality of social interactions and may be useful for interaction-based phenotyping for further studies.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Gehirn & Verhalten (INM-7)

Research Program(s):

1. 572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572) (POF3-572)

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