MOSAIC

The Multimodal Social Interactions Group — an international research community, open to everyone.

We study multimodal social interaction and communication with an interdisciplinary lens, drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, affective computing, AI, psycholinguistics, and related fields.

Each month we meet online for a Grand Challenge — talks, demos, tutorials, and open discussion on a pressing topic. Sessions usually fall on the last Thursday of the month during the academic year (UK afternoon, 90 minutes). Join via the calendar and mailing list; if you’d like to host a session, get in touch.

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Next Grand Challenge

Grand Challenge — Analysing Multimodal Communication: Networks, Repertoires, and Communicative Complexity

Thursday 29 October 2026, 14:00–15:30 · GMT (UK)

Two network-based frameworks for treating multimodal and multicomponent signals as an integrated system: describing repertoire structure, meaning, and function, and quantifying communicative complexity across taxa.

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Topics

MOSAIC topics include but are not limited to:

Click on a year to see what topics we discussed.

How it works

When: usually on the last Thursday of the month, early–mid afternoon UK time (90 minutes).
Where: on Zoom. Dates are on the calendar; the joining link is emailed to the mailing list only (not on the public calendar).
Who: everyone is welcome — researchers, students, and the simply curious. Please share widely.

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