The research community of human-robot interaction relies on theories and phenomena from the social sciences in order to study and validate robotic developments in interaction. These studies mainly concerned one (human) on one (robot) interactions in the past. The present paper shifts the attention to groups and group dynamics and reviews relevant concepts from the social sciences: ingroup identification (I), cohesion (C) and entitativity (E). Ubiquitous robots will be part of larger social settings in the near future. A conceptual framework, the I–C–E framework, is proposed as a theoretical foundation for group (dynamics) research in HRI. Additionally, we present methods and possible measures for these relevant concepts and outline topics for future research.

人机交互研究社区依靠社会科学中的理论和现象来研究和验证机器人在交互中的发展。这些研究主要涉及过去的一种（人）对一种（机器人）交互。本文将注意力转移到群体和群体动力学上，并回顾社会科学的相关概念：群体识别（I），凝聚力（C）和对立性（E）。在不久的将来，无处不在的机器人将成为更大社交环境的一部分。提出了一个概念框架，即I–C–E框架，作为HRI小组（动力学）研究的理论基础。此外，我们介绍了这些相关概念的方法和可能的措施，并概述了将来的研究主题。