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The complexity of social dynamics occurring in small group interactions often hinders the performance of teams. The availability of rich multimodal information about what is going on during the meeting makes it possible to explore the possibility of providing various kinds of support to dysfunctional teams, from facilitation to training sessions addressing both the individuals and the group as a whole. A necessary step in this direction is that of automatically capturing and understanding group dynamics. In order to improve the performance of meetings, external interventions by experts such as facilitators and trainers are commonly employed. Facilitators participate in the meetings as external elements of the group, and their role is to help participants maintain a fair and focused behavior as well as to direct and set the pace of the discussion.
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Pianesi, F., Zancanaro, M., Cappelletti, A., Lepri, B., Not, E. (2009). Automatic Relational Reporting to Support Group Dynamics. In: Waibel, A., Stiefelhagen, R. (eds) Computers in the Human Interaction Loop. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-054-8_21
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