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Communication and coordination
When two people talk, move, and solve problems together they start to act as one system. We measure that coupling in speech, gesture, and posture, and ask when it helps and when it gets in the way.
DynamiCog Lab·(applied) Cognitive Dynamics and Communication
Natural behavior,
measured as it happens.
We study how people communicate and coordinate, in the body, in language, and between each other, using the recordings, text, and movement data that real interaction leaves behind, and the computational tools to make sense of it.
Movement tracking · Conversation analysis · Language models · Dynamical systems
Recruiting undergraduate research assistants and PhD students. See Get Involved.
Nick Duran, Director
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
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Natural behavior in the wild
Emergency calls, patient-physician messages, classrooms, conversations with a stranger. We work from recordings of behavior as it actually occurred, including what people reveal when they are under pressure or holding something back.
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Computation for behavior
Language models, dynamical-systems methods, and recurrence analysis, built to see structure in behavior that unfolds over time. Methods are a research program here, not a toolbox.
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People and machines, adapting
Taking what we know about human coordination into interactions with robots and language-based AI, where the partner is also learning.