Perceived Conversation Quality in Spontaneous Interactions

The quality of daily spontaneous conversations is of importance towards both our well-being as well as the development of interactive social agents. Prior research directly studying the quality of social conversations has operationalized it in narrow terms, associating greater quality to less small talk. Other works taking a broader perspective...

On Social Involvement in Mingling Scenarios: Detecting Associates of F-formations in Still Images

In this paper, we carry out an extensive study of social involvement in free standing conversing groups (the so-called F-formations) from static images. By introducing a novel feature representation, we show that the standard features which have been used to represent full membership in an F-formation cannot be applied to the detection of so...

New Frontiers in Analyzing Dynamic Group Interactions: Bridging Social and Computer Science

This special issue on advancing interdisciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and social scientists documents the joint results of the international Lorentz workshop, “Interdisciplinary Insights into Group and Team Dynamics,” which took place in Leiden, The Netherlands, July 2016. An equal number of scholars from social and...