Hesitant avoidance while walking: an error of social behavior generated by mutual interaction.

ABSTRACT: Altering physical actions when responding to changing environmental demands is important but not always effectively performed. This ineffectiveness, which is an error of social behavior generated by mutual interactions, is not well understood. This study investigated mechanisms of a hesitant behavior that occurs in people walking toward each other, causing people to move in the same direction when attempting to avoid a collision. Using a motion capture device affixed to 17 pairs, we first confirmed the hesitant behavior by a difference between the experimental task, which involved an indeterminate situation to assess the actions of another individual, and the control task, which involved a predetermined avoiding direction, in a real-time situation involving two people. We next investigated

SUBMITTER: Honma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4508494 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature