Performers improvising together describe special moments of 'being in the zone' - periods of high performance, synchrony, and enhanced sense of togetherness. Existing evidence suggests a possible route for attaining togetherness - interpersonal synchrony, the fine-grained sensory-motor coordination that promotes social connectedness. Here, we investigated the physiological characteristics of to...

In this paper, the effects of HyperMirror are classified through the observation of conversation and action to explain the sense of togetherness HyperMirror elicits. HyperMirror is a video communication system in which the participants watch images that display them together by superimposing their mirror reflections. Participants feel physically together with people displayed next to them on a ...

Actors, dancers and musicians that improvise together report special moments of togetherness: high performance and synchrony, seemingly without a leader and a follower. Togetherness seems to conflict with individuality- the idiosyncratic character of each person's performance. To understand the relation of individuality and togetherness, we employed the mirror game paradigm in which two players...

Eriksson, L. 2016. Online Together. A Sociological Study of the Concept of Togetherness and the Contemporary Conditions for Social Interaction. Studia Sociologica Upsaliensia 64. 176 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9593-0. The recent advances in digital communication technologies have altered the way in which people socialize on a day-to-day basis. A question that h...

In many cases, museum visitors come to the museum in small groups of friends or families. Their level of ‘togetherness’ may be implied by their proximity and interaction. Position proximity is a basic requirement to enable quiet face to face conversation in a museum, while voice communication is an example of interaction. Group ‘togetherness’ may be measured to serve two purposes: (1) on the mi...

Collective dance improvisation (e.g., traditional and social dancing, contact improvisation) is a participatory, relational and embodied art form which eschews standard concepts in aesthetics. We present our ongoing research into the mechanisms underlying the lived experience of "togetherness" associated with such practices. Togetherness in collective dance improvisation is kinaesthetic (based ...