interact vs work the room

interact

verb
  • To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone). 

  • To affect each other. 

noun
  • A pair or series of acts involving more than one person. 

work the room

verb
  • To interact enthusiastically with the attendees at an event, by moving among them, greeting them, and engaging them in conversation. 

  • To interact with one's audience, taking cues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm. 

How often have the words interact and work the room occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )