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Estimating Cohesion in Small Groups using Audio-Visual Nonverbal Behavior

2010
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Abstract

Cohesiveness in teams is an essential part of ensuring the smooth running of task-oriented groups. Research in social psychology and management has shown that good cohesion in groups can be correlated with team effectiveness or productivity so automatically estimating group cohesion for team training can be a useful tool. This paper addresses the problem of analyzing group behavior within the context of cohesion. 4 hours of audio-visual group meeting data was used for collecting annotations on the cohesiveness of 4-participant teams. We propose a series of audio and video features, which are inspired by findings in the social sciences literature. Our study is validated on as set of 61 2-minute meeting segments which showed high agreement amongst human annotators who were asked to identify meetings which have high or low cohesion.

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2010
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Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/d8f88b2b-5711-46e9-aafb-43cd916ae526

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Team building

Team building is a collective term for various types of activities used to enhance social relations and define roles within teams, often involving collaborative tasks. It is distinct from team training, which is designed by a combine of business managers, learning and development/OD (Internal or external) and an HR Business Partner (if the role exists) to improve the efficiency, rather than interpersonal relations. Many team-building exercises aim to expose and address interpersonal problems within the group.

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In computer programming, cohesion refers to the degree to which the elements inside a module belong together. In one sense, it is a measure of the strength of relationship between the methods and data of a class and some unifying purpose or concept served by that class. In another sense, it is a measure of the strength of relationship between the class's methods and data themselves. Cohesion is an ordinal type of measurement and is usually described as “high cohesion” or “low cohesion”.

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Team effectiveness (also referred to as group effectiveness) is the capacity a team has to accomplish the goals or objectives administered by an authorized personnel or the organization. A team is a collection of individuals who are interdependent in their tasks, share responsibility for outcomes, and view themselves as a unit embedded in an institutional or organizational system which operates within the established boundaries of that system.

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