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Temporal Translation Symmetry in Interactions| old_uid | 2505 |
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| title | Temporal Translation Symmetry in Interactions |
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| start_date | 2007/03/23 |
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| schedule | 10h-11h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The temporal structure of every-day human behavior and interactions is certainly a complex affaire rich in approximate temporal translation symmetry, that is, in patterns or temporal configurations that are approximately repeated in time. This paper presents a view of the structure of real-time streams of behavior as repeated, temporal patterns of a particular kind called t-patterns.
An instance of a pattern of this kind consists of a particular set of behavioral or even behavior related primitive (verbal, nonverbal and/or environmental) occurring significantly more often than chance expectation in a particular order and/or concurrently with characteristic intervals between them. The analogies thus exist with speech and writing where only a few letters or phonemes are combined to create hundreds of thousands of different words and common word combinations. While remaining statistically significant, the time structure of t-patterns is also flexible and thus accommodates that of, for example, words, phrases, melodies and musical themes, which may be performed with considerable variation between repetitions. in speed and internal intervals
Each primitive of a t-pattern may itself be a t-pattern, which are hierarchical patterns of patterns etc. and as ordinary language phrases their interpretation and effects (meaning, function) depend on the particular words involved, various aspects of their production (performance) and the general context in which they occur. A characteristic that has caused much difficulty regarding the detection of behavioral “sequences” (here rather temporal configurations or patterns) is that other behaviors may occur in various numbers and ways between the components of different instances of the same pattern.
The software THEME has been specially developed for t-pattern detection and analysis. It also detects various other structural types derived from the t-pattern type such as t-bursts, t-cycles, t-markers, t-paths, t-associates, t-frames, and t-packets. These are the primary tasks of Theme, but a considerable part of the software helps with the analysis and use of the detected patterns, which is done both through visual interactive and statistical means. Situations, individuals, interactions and/or groups can be characterized by, for example, different probabilities of occurrences of particular t-patterns or derived structures.
Striking analogies corresponding to the t-pattern structure seem to exist between the spatial patterning of DNA molecules and the temporal patterning of interactions as detected with Theme in interactions between as well neurons as human individuals.
The Hidden Structure of Interaction: From Neurons to Culture Patterns.
Volume 7 Emerging Communication: Studies in New Technologies and Practices
in Communication. Edited by: L. Anolli, S. Duncan Jr., M.S. Magnusson and G.
Riva. April 2005, approx. 300 pp., hardcover. ISBN: 1-58603-509-6. IOSpress
: Asterdam.
See http://www.emergingcommunication.com/volume7.html for free .pdf download
of each chapter of the book, which all concern t-patterns.
Including: "Understanding Social Interaction: Discovering Hidden Structure
with Model and Algorithms", M.S. Magnusson:
http://www.vepsy.com/communication/book6/I_01_Magnusson.pdf
M.S. Magnusson (2006) Structure and Communication in Interaction. In From
Communication to Presence: Cognition, Emotions and Culture towards the
Ultimate Communicative Experience. Festschrift in honor of Luigi Anolli.
Edited by: G. Riva, T. Anguera, B.K. Wiederhold, & F. Mantovani. IOSpress :
Asterdam.
http://www.vepsy.com/communication/book7/9_6_Magnusson.pdf |
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| responsibles | Faraco, Bertrand |
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