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At its core the question is a classification problem of determining when two people form a single connected system versus two separate systems.
There is a large body of qualitative and evolutionary evidence that suggests physiological/psychological differences between scenarios in which two people directly interact versus when they interact indirectly or simply perform related tasks. There is however a lack of sufficient quantitative data or any method to interpret that data. In addition, pilot studies of physiological data indicate that there is unlikely to be a single variable that easily solves the classification problem. Rather the solution is likely to involve a multi-dimensional solution with complicated dynamics. The goal of this seed project is to determine how best to collect empirical data that can be harnessed by AI approaches to solve the classification problem.
