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Movement coordination in human ensembles has been studied little in thecurrent literature. In the existing experimental works, situations where allsubjects are connected with each other through direct visual and auditorycoupling, and social interaction affects their coordination, have beeninvestigated. Here, we study coordination in human ensembles via a novelcomputer-based set-up that enables individuals to coordinate each other'smotion from a distance so as to minimize the influence of social interaction.The proposed platform makes it possible to implement different visualinteraction patterns among the players, so that participants take intoconsideration the motion of a designated subset of the others. This allows theevaluation of the exclusive effects on coordination of the structure ofinterconnections among the players and their own dynamics. Our set-up enablesalso the deployment of virtual players to investigate dyadic interactionbetween a human and a virtual agent, as well as group synchronization in mixedteams of human and virtual agents. We use this novel set-up to studycoordination both in dyads and in groups over different structures ofinterconnections, with and without virtual agents. We find that, in dualinteraction, virtual players manage to interact with participants in ahuman-like fashion, thus confirming findings in previous work. We also observethat, in group interaction, the level of coordination among humans in theabsence of direct visual and auditory coupling depends on the structure ofinterconnections among participants. This confirms, as recently suggested inthe literature, that different coordination levels are achieved over diversevisual pairings in the presence and in the absence of social interaction. Wepresent preliminary experimental results on the effect on group coordination ofdeploying virtual computer agents in the human ensemble.

Study of movement coordination in human ensembles via a novel computer-based set-up