"initiating interactions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a situation in which a person or group is making the first move to make contact with someone else, for example: "He was eager to make new contacts, so he began initiating interactions with other attendees at the networking event."
The dance played with the strangeness of unstill heads — bobbing and initiating interactions with other heads.
Shelly Kagan, a philosopher at Yale and the author of "Death," said the odds are so "vanishingly small" that you'll know when you're in a final conversation, you should avoid any possibility of regret by initiating interactions earlier.
It is well acknowledged that children play an active role in the dyadic interaction process from the very beginning, initiating interactions (van den Bloom and Hoeksma 1994) and influencing their occurrence and appearance (Lloyd and Masur 2014).
"Another thing I'm noticing is they may have trouble initiating interactions, those small talk situations.
The social function of Eye covering did not appear to be geared toward initiating interactions: the gesture was never performed while individuals were locomoting or while they were standing, poised for interaction.
In relationships that sustained personhood they were positioned as agents capable of initiating interactions and responding to other people.
Mostly underground, with fewer opportunities for 'seeing life' going on outside, or moving around the carriage, passengers on the tube may feel too 'trapped' and crowded to risk initiating interaction.
Patients with communication disability of aphasia interact infrequently with nurses and tend not to initiate interactions with patients or visitors.
Sequential analyses revealed that while children with Smith Magenis syndrome did not initiate interactions with adults more than children with Down syndrome did, reciprocity between child and adult social behaviours in Smith Magenis syndrome within interactions was compromised.
In this paper, we performed an exploration on the design and evaluation of pen tail gesture, an interaction method that allows the use of pen tail movement to initiate interactions.
The findings of Study 1 revealed passive learning behavior among the majority of participants, who tended not to interrupt the instructor's lecture, spontaneously ask questions, or initiate interactions.
