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An introduction to the way in which people arrange themselves spatially in various kinds of focused interaction, especially conversation. It is shown how participants may jointly establish and maintain a spatial-orientational system, referred to as an F-formation, which functions as part of the way in which participants in conversation preserve the integrity of their occasion of interaction and jointly manage their attention.
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Kendon, A. (2010). Spacing and Orientation in Co-present Interaction. In: Esposito, A., Campbell, N., Vogel, C., Hussain, A., Nijholt, A. (eds) Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12397-9_1
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