Paper Info
Title
The Change Matters! Measuring the Effect of Changing the Leader in Joint Music Performances
Abstract
In a joint action, a group of individuals coordinate their movements to reach a shared goal. When a change–i.e., an event that affects group functioning–occurs, the group adopts strategies to face it. This article investigates how a change involving a strategic core role in a group affects interpersonal coordination, and ultimately group effectiveness in performing a joint action. Following the entrainment theory, interpersonal coordination is addressed in terms of the rhythmic cycles of the individuals and of the group and their adjustment. Music is used as an ideal ecological scenario for investigation. More specifically, this article focuses on orchestra playing. By adopting a computational approach, research is devoted to measure how a change of conductor (i.e., the leader) influences entrainment between players and its variation over time as well as the relationship between entrainment and external ratings of the orchestra performance. Results show that, whereas the change of conductor had a limited significant effect on entrainment, a significant effect was found when entrainment is used as a predictor of the external ratings. Both the obtained results and the techniques developed for measuring entrainment may open novel research directions in the area of automated analysis of group behavior, and particularly of emotion in groups.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2951368
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Joint action,group,change,entrainment,musical performance
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1949-3045
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giovanna Varni117026.42
Maurizio Mancini2415.90
Luciano Fadiga323519.90
Antonio Camurri41107142.92
Gualtiero Volpe5864101.42