Calabrese, Carmela (2021) Analysis of synchronization and leadership emergence in human group interaction. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Item Type: | Tesi di dottorato |
|---|---|
| Resource language: | English |
| Title: | Analysis of synchronization and leadership emergence in human group interaction |
| Creators: | Creators Email Calabrese, Carmela carmela.calabrese@unina.it |
| Date: | 4 February 2021 |
| Number of Pages: | 171 |
| Institution: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: | Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione |
| Dottorato: | Information technology and electrical engineering |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 33 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Riccio, Daniele daniele.riccio@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email di Bernardo, Mario UNSPECIFIED |
| Date: | 4 February 2021 |
| Number of Pages: | 171 |
| Keywords: | Complex systems; synchronization; human behaviour; modelling; data analysis; leadership. |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 09 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione > ING-INF/04 - Automatica |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2021 22:59 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2023 10:18 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/14203 |
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Perceptual-motor synchronization in small human groups is crucial in many human activities from musical ensembles to sports teams. Unveiling the underlying mechanisms of human coordination has attracted the interest of researchers from diverse disciplines from psychology to complex systems. Several studies in social and nonlinear systems sciences have highlighted the main features characterizing synchronization within human dyads and large crowds, whereas the investigation in human groups with multiple agents (5 − 7 people) remains preliminary, and rarely captured by a consistent mathematical framework. In addition, a theory of leadership emergence in human group motor synchronization is still missing. In this thesis, we study group motor synchronization across different experimental conditions. The goal is to uncover the individual and group features that influence group performance; derive a mathematical model able to describe and unfold the mechanisms underlying group coordination; understand how leaders naturally emerge in a group of people coordinating their motion and guide all the other members towards a desired behaviour; and explore if and how artificial agents interacting with humans promote group coordination and influence leadership emergence. To this aim, we built a flexible experimental setup allowing to implement a group version of the "mirror game", which is considered as a paradigmatic coordination task in human groups. In our setup, participants were asked to perform oscillatory movements and synchronize with the others in the group. We considered different groups of participants, characterized by different kinematic features, and studied how group coordination emerged. Addressing this challenge plays a crucial role in the case of humans performing some joint task with patients affected by social disorders. Indeed, social psychology suggests that coordination enhances social attachment and we envisage the results of our study can be used for the rehabilitation of patients affected by social disorders, to develop a control-based cognitive architecture that drives virtual agents' (robots or avatars) behaviour to promote patients' participation and leadership, and drive players and patients towards a preferred group behaviour. This doctoral work was conducted in the context of a Ph.D. cotutelle between Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Université de Montpellier, and was funded by the VINCI program promoted by Università Italo-Francese/ Université Franco-Italienne (Scholarship number C3-862).
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