Action-based confidence sharing and collective decision making.

ABSTRACT: Joint action research explores how multiple humans can coordinate their movements to achieve common goals. When there is uncertainty about the joint goal, individuals need to integrate their perceptual information of the environment to collaboratively determine their new goal. To ensure that a group reaches a consensus about the goal, collective decision making among the individuals is required. Collective decision making can be facilitated by nonverbal expressions of opinions and associated confidence levels. Here, we show that confidence sharing in groups of 2, 3, and 4 individuals can be studied using their trajectories when jointly moving toward one of several options. We found that both opinions and confidence levels can be distinguished in individual movement trajectories, and found

SUBMITTER: Coucke N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11490717 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature