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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Social Neuroscience

Background:

  • The enactive approach posits perception as skillful engagement with the world.
  • Learning to use human-computer interfaces (HCIs) can be viewed as developing new modes of experience.
  • Social perception is theorized to arise from skillful engagement between individuals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the origins and development of social awareness using multi-user HCIs.
  • To analyze changes in sociality during a perceptual crossing experiment mediated by a haptic HCI.
  • To test the hypothesis that initial developmental stages of social awareness are recapitulated in such an experiment.

Main Methods:

  • Embodied interaction between adult pairs mediated over a minimalist haptic HCI.
  • A perceptual crossing experiment requiring implicit relearning of mutual engagement to perceive presence.
  • Analysis of trial-by-trial objective and subjective changes in sociality.

Main Results:

  • A trend for increased clarity of social awareness over time was observed.
  • This trend emerged despite the absence of explicit task performance feedback.
  • Preliminary findings suggest a potential recapitulation of early social awareness development.

Conclusions:

  • Multi-user HCIs may offer a platform for studying the development of social awareness.
  • The study highlights methodological challenges in evaluating developmental stages in objective behavior and subjective experience.
  • Findings contribute to understanding how embodied interaction via HCI influences social cognition.