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<p
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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.</p>
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<p
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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.</p>
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<p
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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.</p>
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<p
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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.</p>
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addition to methodological and theoretical contributions, we
welcome also practical applications. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to the following:<br>
• (multimodal) group analysis (from both communities)<br>
• (multimodal) multi-agent analysis (from both communities)<br>
• (multimodal) multi-agent interaction (from both communities)<br>
• (automatic) multi-agent addressee detection<br>
• technical implications of group investigations<br>
• social implication of group investigations<br>
• human group and agent interaction<br>
• teams and computer agent collaboration<br>
• analyses of group emotions<br>
• explanatory theories for group/agent analysis and interaction<br>
• group and teams research using novel technology</p>
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Dates:</p>
<p
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March 8th, 2021</p>
<p
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June 21st, 2021</p>
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<p
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<p
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Böck, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany</p>
<p
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A. Allen, The University of Utah, USA</p>
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Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck</p>
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IIKT-Cognitive Systems</p>
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