About MOSAIC

MOSAIC — the Multimodal Social Interactions Group — is an international community of 200+ scholars who meet monthly to discuss pressing topics in social interaction research. It was founded in 2021 by Rachael Jack and Jonas Nölle at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow and has since grown rapidly into an open cross-institutional and transdisciplinary platform for researchers at all career stages.

Each month we run a Grand Challenge: a 90-minute online session built around invited talks, demos, and open discussion. Topics span the many modalities of social interaction — facial expression, gesture, voice, language, wearable sensing, and the role of AI and machines in how we communicate.

Everyone is welcome to join, whether you’re a researcher, a student, or simply curious. Please feel free to spread the word.

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Where our community is

MOSAIC members work at universities and research institutes around the world. Each dot is a city with one or more affiliated members (size ≈ how many).

Join the mailing list

Announcements and updates go to the MOSAIC list at the University of Glasgow (spn-mosaic@lists.cent.gla.ac.uk). Anyone can request to join (no university login required for you).

  1. Send an email to sympa@lists.cent.gla.ac.uk.

  2. Set the subject line exactly like this, but put your own name in place of the placeholders:

    SUB spn-mosaic FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME

    Example: if your name is Ada Lovelace, use the following as the email’s subject line:

    SUB spn-mosaic Ada Lovelace

  3. You can leave the email body empty. Send the message from the address you want on the list.
  4. You should get a short note that your request was sent to the list owners. After we approve it, you’ll receive a welcome message.

Trouble joining? Email mosaic.soc@gmail.com and we’ll add you manually.

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For organizers

Adding an event to this site is a matter of copying one template file and filling it in — see CONTRIBUTING.md in the project repository for step-by-step instructions. No web-development experience needed.