Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration

The recording from last week’s special webinar presented by Dr Eike Schneiders, Transitional Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, is now on our YouTube channel.

Successful entrainment during collaboration positively affects trust, willingness to collaborate, and likeability towards collaborators. In this talk Dr Schneiders discusses a paper featuring a mixed-method study to investigate characteristics of successful entrainment leading to pair and group-based synchronisation. Drawing inspiration from industrial settings, the research group designed a fast-paced, short-cycle repetitive task. Using motion tracking, they investigated entrainment in both dyadic and triadic task completion.

Furthermore, they utilise audio-video recordings and semi-structured interviews to contextualise participants’ experiences/ And, finally, they present three design considerations for future research and design on collaboration with robots.

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