Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
Hannah Pelikan, one of our wonderful PhD students in the non-lexical vocalizations team looking at human-robot interaction, recently had their penultimate thesis seminar, a practice defense, examined by Stuart Reeves, Brian Due, and Roberto Bresin. We were delighted to also host several talks and data sessions with our guests, including a higher seminar (on the …
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Agnes Löfgren, one of our excellent PhD students in the non-lexical vocalizations team studying opera rehearsals and the development of proposals and art in interaction, recently had their penultimate thesis seminar, a practice defense, examined by Melisa Stevanovic, Oliver Ehmer, and Stefan Norrthon. We were delighted to also host several talks and data sessions with …
Leelo Keevallik was featured on UR's Sverige Forskar program, available here: https://urplay.se/program/229034-sverige-forskar-de-ordlosa-ljudens-sprak For a (rough! personally done!) transcript in English, see below: De ordlösa ljudens språk. 2022. Producent: Jan Axelsson. UR: Sverige Forskar. New research is mapping out the sounds we make, those that are rarely found in dictionaries. Extending from this work, we can …
The non-lexical vocalizations team was delighted to have a visit from Lorenza Mondada, with whom (and many other wonderful Linköping colleagues and visiting scholar Julia Katila of Tampere!) they participated in a full day of exciting data sessions. Thanks to our few online guests, we also have a group picture! Schedule: 9.00-12:30 Morning session at …
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Hofstetter & Keevallik have recently published "Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies" in a special issue on Sounding for Others. Abstract: While the lexico-grammatical and embodied practices in various instructional activities have been explored in-depth (Keevallik, 2013; Simone & Galatolo, 2020), the vocal capacities deployed by instructors have not been in focus. …
Hofstetter has published an article in a special issue on ethnography and ethnomethodology, "A novice inquiry into unique adequacy". Abstract: In this paper, I question how a researcher might fulfil the unique adequacy requirement when studying novices in a setting in which the researcher is already a member. Since novices by definition lack the expected …
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Pekarek Doehler, Keevallik, Li have edited a special issue at Frontiers in Communication on The Grammar-Body Interface, with an introduction here. Abstract: Human communication rests on a complex ecology of multiple resources that are orchestrated for collaborative meaning-making and coordination of social action. The aim of this Research Topic is to analyze how grammar and …
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Pelikan & Hofstetter have recently published "Managing Delays in Human-Robot Interaction". Abstract: Delays in the completion of joint actions are sometimes unavoidable. How should a robot communicate that it cannot immediately act or respond in a collaborative task? Drawing on video recordings of a face scanning activity in family homes, we investigate how humans make …
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Pelikan, Keevallik, and Broth have published a paper, entitled "When a Robot Comes to Life: The Interactional Achievement of Agency as a Transient Phenomenon". Abstract: Conceptualizing agency is a long-standing theoretical concern. Taking an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective, we explore agency as the oriented to capacity to produce situationally and sequentially relevant action. Drawing …
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Pelikan presented a workshop at the 2022 HRI Conference.: "Reconfiguring HRI – Combining EMCA Interaction Analysis and Design." as part of the Workshop Re-Configuring Human-Robot Interaction held in conjunction with the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’22). Abstract: HRI research is currently dominated by experimental lab studies centered on individual users. Recent work has …
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