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The dynamics of reference and shared visual attention.

Rick Dale¹, Natasha Z Kirkham, Daniel C Richardson

¹Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California Merced Merced, CA, USA.

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|December 14, 2011

Summary

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Participants in a tangram task, where they match shapes using verbal instructions, showed faster completion times and synchronized eye movements over time. This suggests coordinated communication leads to a unified behavioral system.

Keywords:

attention communication coordination interaction language reference synchrony vision

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Cognitive Science
Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

The tangram task requires participants to verbally describe abstract shapes to match arrangements.
Effective communication and coordination are crucial for task success.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the coordination of communication and action in a dyadic task.
To examine how eye movements synchronize during collaborative problem-solving.

Main Methods:

Tracking eye movements of participant pairs during a computerized tangram task.
Utilizing cross-recurrence analysis to quantify coordination between participants.
Analyzing task completion times across multiple rounds.

Main Results:

A canonical tangram effect was observed, with task completion times decreasing across rounds.
Participant eye movements synchronized over time, indicating developing coordination.
Cross-recurrence analysis confirmed that synchronized language and actions approximated a single coordinated system.

Conclusions:

Collaborative problem-solving in tasks like the tangram leads to synchronized communication and action.
Eye-movement synchronization serves as a quantifiable measure of developing interpersonal coordination.
Shared linguistic representations facilitate the emergence of a unified behavioral system between participants.