Keevallik et al. ESN: Syntax of response cries

Keevallik, Hofstetter, Löfgren, & Wiggins presented at the Embodied Syntax Network conference, Sept 8 2023, on the syntax of response cries. Abstract: The essence of response cries, as described by Goffman (1978), is that their sequential placement in the immediate aftermath of an event performs them as visceral reactions to this event. While some studies …

Keevallik keynote on simultaneity at Multimodality Day23

Keevallik is presenting the keynote address at Copenhagen Multimodality Day, October 6th. Beyond sequentiality: The broad field of interaction analysis has traditionally relied on the understanding that participants act after each other, one at a time (Sacks et al. 1974), with regular exceptions such as terminal overlap or “early” responses (Depperman et al. 2021). Several …

NLV Team at ICCA2023

The International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2023, in Brisbane Australia, has arrived! The non-lexicals team has quite a number of different contributions, summarized and linked here: Workshop: Keevallik on Affiliation. Panel: Hofstetter & Keevallik have organized a panel on Strain in interaction, thanks to the following wonderful contributors: Misao Okada - Japanese turn-initial particle, hai, …

Keevallik & Wiggins ICCA23: Sounds of disgust

As part of the panel on Exploring food practices: Body, materiality, and sociality, Keevallik & Wiggins will present -- Sounds of disgust: Young children’s non-lexical orientations to food during shared mealtimes. International Conference on Conversation Analysis, 2023. Brisbane, Australia. Abstract: Sharing a meal involves eating the same foods not only in a material sense but also …

Löfgren Nordisco23: Nonserious depictions in rehearsals

Löfgren, A., Hofstetter, E. & Keevallik, L. (2023). Are you serious? Depictions at opera rehearsals. Nordisco 2023, Tampere, Finland. During scenic opera rehearsals, the participants work together to create portrayals of characters to music. They use depictions--momentary scenes staged for the other participants--to propose and negotiate character behaviors that suit the developing aesthetics of the …

Löfgren ICCA23: The interactional history of proposals at opera rehearsals

As part of the Interactional Histories panel at ICCA2023, Löfgren is presenting on the development of depictions in opera rehearsals. Abstract: This paper targets opera performer proposals of dramatic actions - actions to be carried out on stage to music in the service of portraying the characters. The performers both describe and depict (Clark, 2016) …

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.

Pelikan HRI2022: Combing EMCA and design

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 …

Pelikan et al. CHI2022: Interaction Prototyping With Video

Pelikan et al. have presented a workshop at CHI2022, "Interaction Prototyping With Video: Bridging Video Interaction Analysis & Design" Hannah Pelikan, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, Jenny Fu, Leelo Keevallik, Mathias Broth, and Malte F. Jung. 2022. Interaction Prototyping With Video: Bridging Video Interaction Analysis & Design. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts …

Pelikan et al. ICRA 2022:

At the workshop Sound for Robots, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022), Pelikan et al. presented  “Designing Minimal Sounds for Maximum Interaction.”  Authors: Hannah Pelikan, Jenny Fu, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, Asher Lipman, and Malte Jung Abstract: While recent work has started to explore how to make robots …