Lahnakoski, Juha, Forbes, Paul A.G., McCall, Cade Andrew orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-8899 et al. (1 more author) (2020) Unobtrusive tracking of interpersonal orienting and distance predicts the subjective quality of social interactions. Royal Society Open Science. 191815. ISSN 2054-5703
Abstract
Interpersonal coordination of behaviour is essential for smooth social interactions. Measures of interpersonal behaviour, however, often rely on subjective evaluations, invasive measurement techniques or gross measures of motion. Here, we constructed an unobtrusive motion tracking system that enables detailed analysis of behaviour at the individual and interpersonal levels, which we validated using wearable sensors. We evaluate dyadic measures of joint orienting and distancing, synchrony and gaze behaviours to summarize data collected during natural conversation and joint action tasks. Our results demonstrate that patterns of proxemic behaviours, rather than more widely used measures of interpersonal synchrony, best predicted the subjective quality of the interactions. Increased distance between participants predicted lower enjoyment, while increased joint orienting towards each other during cooperation correlated with increased effort reported by the participants. Importantly, the interpersonal distance was most informative of the quality of interaction when task demands and experimental control were minimal.These results suggest that interpersonal measures of behaviour gathered during minimally constrained social interactions are particularly sensitive for the subjective quality of social interactions and may be useful for interaction-based phenotyping for further studies.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2020 14:50 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:48 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191815 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1098/rsos.191815 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164029 |