A Simple Linear Model for Exploring Synchrony and Complementarity in Interpersonal Coordination

EasyChair Preprint 8465

Abstract

People coordinate to perform joint tasks in daily interactions, and successful outcomes often require that they perform synchronized and complementary behaviors. Using computational methods, we develop a simple linear model to describe dynamics of synchrony and complementarity and explore their task-dependence, with task context consisting of active, inactive, and inhibitory constraints on communication. Results reflect that task constraints can be a robust predictor of simulated agents’ behaviors over time. We describe preliminary theoretical implications from these results, and relate them to broader proposals of synergistic self-organization in communication.

Keyphrases: Complementarity, active inhibition, interpersonal dynamics, modeling and simulation, synchrony, synergy

@booklet{EasyChair:8465,
  author    = {Grace Qiyuan Miao and Rick Dale and Alexia Galati},
  title     = {A Simple Linear Model for Exploring Synchrony and Complementarity in Interpersonal Coordination},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 8465},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}