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In a new international study in collaboration with the\u00a0University of Haifa<\/b>,\u00a0Dr. Teddy Lazebnik<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Prof. Anna Zamansky<\/b>\u00a0from the Department of Information Systems, alongside\u00a0Dr. Brittany Florkiewicz<\/b>\u00a0from Lyon College, sought to examine how social context and gender composition in cat dyads influence physical proximity patterns during face-to-face communication. Furthermore, the researchers investigated whether\u00a0Artificial Intelligence (AI)<\/b>\u00a0tools can be utilized to analyze these interactions with high precision and systematic consistency.<\/p>\n

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