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  • Human Movement Science
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  • Adapting physical actions to environmental changes is crucial but often flawed.
  • Ineffective social behavior during mutual interactions, like hesitant walking, is poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the mechanisms behind hesitant behavior in dyadic walking.
  • Examine how environmental factors influence this social interaction error.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized motion capture technology with 17 pairs of participants.
  • Compared an indeterminate situation (assessing others' actions) with a predetermined avoiding direction control task.
  • Analyzed the impact of distance, synchronized walking, and foot relations on hesitant behavior.

Main Results:

  • Hesitant behavior, characterized by freezing and near-collisions, significantly increased in indeterminate situations.
  • This behavior was particularly pronounced with a combination of long distance, synchronized walking, and differing foot relations.
  • Interpersonal dynamics and the ability to predict movement influenced hesitant behavior.

Conclusions:

  • Hesitant behavior may arise as an unintended consequence of joint actions in dyadic interactions.
  • Understanding these mechanisms enhances knowledge of adaptive control in perception-action coupling during social navigation.