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Abstract | ||
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People's body movements in daily face-to-face communication influence each other. For instance, during a heated debate, the participants use more gestures and other body movements, while in a calm discussion they use fewer gestures. This "coevolution" of interpersonal body movements occurs on multiple time scales, like minutes or hours. However, the multi-time-scale coevolution in daily communication is not clear yet. In this paper, we explore the minute-to-minute coevolution of interpersonal body movements in daily communication and investigate the characteristics of this coevolution. We present quantitative data on upper-body movements from thousand test subjects from seven organizations gathered over several months via wearable sensors. The device we employed measured upper-body movements with an accelerometer and the duration of face-to-face communication with an infrared ray sensor on a minute-by-minute basis. We defined a coevolution measure between two people as the number of per-minute changes of their body movement and compared the indices for face-to-face and non-face-to-face situations. We found that on average, the amount of people's body movements changed correspondingly for face-to-face communication and that the average rate of coevolution in the case of face-to-face communication was 3-4% higher than in the case of non-face-to-face situation. These results reveal minute-to-minute coevolution of upper-body movements between people in daily communication. The finding suggests that the coevolution of body movement arises in multiple time scales. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7444 | IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
face-to-face contact, body movement, daily communication, minute-time-scale, coevolution | Computer vision,Coevolution,Interpersonal communication,Communication,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Face-to-face interaction | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
E100D | 10 | 1745-1361 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 11 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiki Ogata | 1 | 20 | 14.76 |
| naoki higo | 2 | 1 | 1.04 |
| Takayuki Nozawa | 3 | 60 | 12.27 |
| eisuke ono | 4 | 2 | 1.07 |
| Kazuo Yano | 5 | 107 | 29.90 |
| Koji Ara | 6 | 126 | 13.56 |
| Yoshihiro Miyake | 7 | 107 | 23.98 |