face-to-face social interaction
using findings in social cognition, social psychology, and communication that have established the key role that nonverbal communication plays in the formation, maintenance, and evolution of a number of fundamental social constructs, which emerge from face-to-face interactions in time scales that range from short glimpses all the way to long-term encounters.
- modeling interaction management
conversational patterns exist at multiple time scales, ranging from addressing, to a large variety of turn-taking patterns of longer temporal support including floor control mechanisms, discussion types, etc.
1.1 addressing
an addressee is the person at whom the speech is directed (through different communication channels, including speech, gaze, and gestures)
roles: speakers, addressees, side participants
flow of a meeting: monologues, group discussions, side conversations.
1.2 turn-taking