Individuals physically interacting in a group rapidly coordinate their movement by estimating the collective goal

• Main Authors: Takagi, Atsushi, Hirashima, Masaya, Nozaki, Daichi, Burdet, Etienne
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Group Dynamics; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Coordination
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90261; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48453
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

How can a human collective coordinate, for example to move a banquet table, when each person is influenced by the inertia of others who may be inferior at the task? We hypothesized that large groups cannot coordinate through touch alone, accruing to a zero-sum scenario where individuals inferior at...