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The detection of free-standing conversing groups has received significantattention in recent years. In the absence of a formal definition, most studiesoperationalize the notion of a conversation group either through a spatial or atemporal lens. Spatially, the most commonly used representation is theF-formation, defined by social scientists as the configuration in which peoplearrange themselves to sustain an interaction. However, the use of thisrepresentation is often accompanied with the simplifying assumption that asingle conversation occurs within an F-formation. Temporally, variouscategories have been used to organize conversational units; these include,among others, turn, topic, and floor. Some of these concepts are hard to defineobjectively by themselves. The present work constitutes an initial explorationinto unifying these perspectives by primarily posing the question: can we usethe observation of simultaneous speaker turns to infer whether multipleconversation floors exist within an F-formation? We motivate a metric for theexistence of distinct conversation floors based on simultaneous speaker turns,and provide an analysis using this metric to characterize conversations acrossF-formations of varying cardinality. We contribute two key findings: firstly,at the average speaking turn duration of about two seconds for humans, there isevidence for the existence of multiple floors within an F-formation; andsecondly, an increase in the cardinality of an F-formation correlates with adecrease in duration of simultaneous speaking turns.

Towards automatic estimation of conversation floors within F-formations