Intra- and Inter-personal Coordination of Speech, Gesture and Breathing Movements

• DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.20.247
• Publication Date: 2005-03-31T06:05:53Z
• Authors: Koji Hayashi; Nobuhiro Furuyama; Hiroki Takase
• Keywords: 05 social sciences; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences

This study is meant to contribute, from a psychological viewpoint, to the development of a ``symbiotic'' system, an intelligent system capable of ``living with'' human beings. We approach this by examining how people interact gesturally with each other, with a special focus on breathing movements. Within this general framework, the present paper reports two experiments conducted to examine the dynamics underlying intra- and inter-personal coordination of speech articulation, hand gesture movements, and breathing movements. The results reveal similarities as well as differences between intra- and inter-personal coordination, and we discuss their implications for existing theories of motor coordination, as well as for the development of human-machine symbiotic systems.