Insights on Group and Team Dynamics

We are organizing again the workshop on Interdisciplinary Insights into Group and Team Dynamics which is a joint effort between researchers in the the ICMI and INGRoup (Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research) communities. This workshop aims to provide a common destination for researchers to exchange ideas and collaborate. We have found...

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Insights into Group and Team Dynamics

There has been gathering momentum over the last 10 years in the study of group behavior in multimodal multiparty interactions. While many works in the computer science community focus on the analysis of individual or dyadic interactions, we believe that the study of groups adds an additional layer of complexity with respect to how humans...

Towards automatic estimation of conversation floors within F-formations

The detection of free-standing conversing groups has received significant attention in recent years. In the absence of a formal definition, most studies operationalize the notion of a conversation group either through a spatial or a temporal lens. Spatially, the most commonly used representation is the F-formation, defined by social...

Detecting F-formations Roles in Crowded Social Scenes with Wearables: Combining Proxemics Dynamics using LSTMs

In this paper, we investigate the use of proxemics and dynamics for automatically identifying conversing groups, or so-called F-formations. More formally we aim to automatically identify whether wearable sensor data coming from 2 people is indicative of F-formation membership. We also explore the problem of jointly detecting membership and...

Group interaction frontiers in technology

Over the last decade, the study of group behavior for multimodal interaction technologies has increased. However, we believe that despite its potential benefits on society, there could be more activity in this area. The aim of this workshop is create a forum for more interdisciplinary dialogue on this topic to enable the acceleration of...