In UNITY, one of the most important features at the heart of the project is the analysis, representation and comparison of the intensity of each user's kinetic response to rhythm, in order to understand how dancers and ravers respond affectively to music and join together under the same rhythmic pattern, synchronizing and merging into one another in one, single entity. In musicology, the synchronization of movements is called entrainment, and becomes possible thanks to particular features of the musical, social and physical environments.

After an extensive research through the work of various authors and researchers in social cognition, psychology and music theory , including names of the like of Joel Krueger, Maria Witek and Vincent Cheung, I needed to translate theory into real numbers. In order to quantify and compare the aforementioned values, I deep dived into the work of Rudolf Laban, one of the most proficient theorist on dance and body movement, also creator of the Labanotation, a structured method to write, analyse and dictate human movement and dance choreography.

In particular, the Laban Effort & Shape theory outlines a methodology to section systemic movement into two main elements, effort and shape. More specifically, as opposed to the Body and Space components describing structural characteristics of the movement, effort and shape define instead their qualitative aspects, allowing us to "encode the use of energy through four dimensions: Weight, Time, Space and Flow".