Our daily human life is filled with a myriad of joint action moments, be it children playing,
adults working together (ie, team sports), or strangers navigating through a crowd. Joint …

Interpersonal coordination is a research topic that has attracted considerable attention this
last decade both due to a theoretical shift from intra-individual to inter-individual processes …

Although the link between motor synchrony and emotional alignment has been extensively
studied during face-to-face interaction, the question of whether this association also exists in …

In this paper, we present an electrically driven childlike android named ibuki equipped with
a wheeled mobility unit that enables it to move in a real environment. Since the unit includes …

The subjective experience of embodying an avatar when immersed in virtual reality (VR) is
known to support the sense of presence and to help with the interaction in a virtual …

Coordinating a physical movement in time and space with social and nonsocial partners to
achieve a shared goal–“joint action”(JA)–characterizes many peer-engagement situations …

Dialogue robots have gained widespread use in various domains. However, their ability to
engage in conversations about actions that robots cannot perform, such as eating and …

Academic Abstract Interpersonal synchrony, the alignment of behavior and/or physiology
during interactions, is a pervasive phenomenon observed in diverse social contexts. Here …

Infant-adult synchrony has been reported through observational and experimental studies.
Nevertheless, synchrony is addressed differently in both cases. While observational studies …

Virtual Reality (VR) setups offer the possibility to investigate interactions between model and
observer characteristics in imitation behavior, such as in the chameleon effect of automatic …