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Pelikan & Jung 2023: Designing robot sound

Pelikan, H.R.M. & Jung, M.F. (2023). Designing Robot Sound-In- Interaction: The Case of Autonomous Public Transport Shuttle Buses. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23), March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, New York, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576979. [Best paper nominee - Designs] Abstract: Horns and sirens are important tools for communicating on the road, which …

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Pelikan Dissertation: Robot sound in interaction

On June 8th, 2023, Hannah Pelikan defended her PhD dissertation successfully, entitled "Robot sound in interaction: Analyzing and designing sound for human-robot coordination". Her opponent was Christian Licoppe, with committee Joonas Ivarsson, Wendy Ju, and Akiko Yamazaki. Abstract: Robots naturally emit sound, but we still know little about how sound can serve as an interface …

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Keevallik ICCA Workshop – Affiliation in interaction

Keevallik is hosting a pre-conference workshop at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2023, Brisbane, on Affilliation. We will move from the historical development of the concept through some classics to specific societal issues, complex turns, and embodied aspects of creating social cohesion.

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Wiggins & Keevallik 2023 Disgust in the face and body

Wiggins, S., & Keevallik, L. (2023). Transformations of Disgust in Interaction: The Intertwinement of Face, Sound and the Body. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 6(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v6i2.134841 Expressions of disgust have typically been studied as isolated faces or voices but rarely as embodied practices in everyday interaction. Building on multimodal interactional research …

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Pelikan’s 90% seminar w. guests Stuart Reeves, Brian Due

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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Löfgren 90% seminar w. guests Melisa Stevanovic, Oliver Ehmer, Stefan Norrthon

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 …

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Leelo Keevallik on UR Sverige Forskar

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 …

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All Day Data sessions – A visit from Lorenza Mondada

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 2023: Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies

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. …

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Hofstetter 2022: Novice inquiry in unique adequacy

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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