[agents] 2nd CfP for Frontiers Reseach Topic: Group Analysis and Multi-Agent Interaction =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=Bridging the Gap between Social Investigations and Computational Analysis

[Ronald Böck]

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About the Research Topic:


Human beings are interactive and socially engaged, as they often gather
and communicate in either dyads or groups. During such interactions,
each communication partner is providing a variety of information,
including general information/content, as well as personal and
relational information. These communication aspects and information are
truly on display in group interactions or multi-party interactions.

 

For many years, analyses of communication was a major objective of
several areas within the social sciences, including areas such as
investigating inter-personal relationships of the group members and the
dynamics of group interaction, cohesion, and performance. Meanwhile,
computer scientists started to investigate groups using automatic
analyses, often borrowing theoretical foundations from the social
sciences. Unfortunately, these two groups, social scientists and
computer scientists, have only begun to collaborate. Yet, these
collaborations are beginning to be fruitful, but have no home for their
work.

 

In particular, the interdisciplinary collaboration between these
research communities is currently rather loose because of the limited
(i.e. none) possible publication options. Therefore, the main purpose of
this Research Topic is to provide an outlet for these collaborative
initiatives that are also seeing renewed interest from both communities
and their respective funding agencies.

 

This Research Topic provides an opportunity for scholars and researchers
to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that
will stimulate the continuing effort in group analyses and multi-agent
interactions.

 

In addition to methodological and theoretical contributions, we welcome
also practical applications. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to the following:
• (multimodal) group analysis (from both communities)
• (multimodal) multi-agent analysis (from both communities)
• (multimodal) multi-agent interaction (from both communities)
• (automatic) multi-agent addressee detection
• technical implications of group investigations
• social implication of group investigations
• human group and agent interaction
• teams and computer agent collaboration
• analyses of group emotions
• explanatory theories for group/agent analysis and interaction
• group and teams research using novel technology


Important Dates:

Abstract: March 8th, 2021

Manuscript: June 21st, 2021



Organisers:

Ronald Böck, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

Joseph A. Allen, The University of Utah, USA



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Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck

FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems

Building 03, Room 322

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany

Phone: +49 391 67 50061

E-mail:

ronald.boeck at ieee.org

ronald.boeck at ovgu.de

Web: http://www.kognitivesysteme.de


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