Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
Keevallik, L. (2022). The Body in Social Interaction. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.135 Communicative action can be carried out by not only verbal but also embodied means. People regularly use multimodal resources to make sense for each other. Consider a mundane activity, such as a greeting. In addition to the choice of lexical …
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Broth, M., & Keevallik, L. (2023). Språk och kropp i samspel. In S. Ericson, I.-L. Grahn, & S. Karlsson (Eds.), Att analysera interaktion (pp. 175–192). Studentliterattur. https://www.studentlitteratur.se/kurslitteratur/sprakvetenskap-och-sprakdidaktik/svenska-och-nordiska-sprak/att-analysera-interaktion/
Keevallik, L., Hofstetter, E., Löfgren, A., & Wiggins, S. (2024). Repetition for real-time coordination of action: Lexical and non-lexical vocalizations in collaborative time management. Discourse Studies, 14614456231224079. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231224079 Repetition has often been argued to be a semiotic device that iconically signifies ‘more content’, such as intensity and plurality. However, through multimodal interaction analysis of materials …
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Katila, J., Hofstetter, E., & Keevallik, L. (2023). Cries of Pleasure and Pain: Vocalizations Communicating How Touch Feels in Romantic Relationships. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 56(4), 330–349. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2023.2272529 Research on interaction has recently ventured into the domain of sensoriality, hitherto considered inaccessible for video analysis. This article contributes to this emerging field by …
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On November 24th, 2023, Agnes Löfgren defended her PhD dissertation successfully, entitled "Bodies to suit the music: Depictions in opera rehearsals". Her opponent was Beatrice Szczepek Reed, with committee Spencer Hazel, Oliver Ehmer, and Stefan Norrthon. Abstract: This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, …
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Keevallik, L. (2023). Strain grunts and the organization of participation. In L. Mondada & A. Peräkylä (Eds.), Body, participation, and the self: New perspectives on Goffman in language and interaction (pp. 143–169). Routledge. This chapter looks at how people vocally display bodily strain. While strain sounds can be a “leakage” of an individual bodily effort, …
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Robot sound spans a wide continuum, from subtle motor hums, through music, bleeps and bloops, to human-inspired vocalizations, and can be an important means of communication for robotic agents. This first workshop on sound in HRI aims to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on sound, including design, conversation analysis, (computational) linguistics, music, engineering and psychology. The …
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From introduction: Sound is an important interaction modality and a large part of human interaction happens in the aural domain. While research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has long explored spoken language for interacting with humans, sound as a broader—and, to a significant degree, non-lexical (i.e., without words)—medium has been given comparably less attention. Yet, the …
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When aiming to design for intuitive interaction, a good understanding of human behavior is essential. In this chapter we dive into studies on how humans use vocalizations and prosody in everyday interaction. Contrasting six examples from human-human and human-robot interaction, we highlight how insights on human practices can inform the design of robot sound in …
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Robots that can talk and move may turn from tools to potential participants, which poses new methodological challenges, particularly for transcription. This chapter first presents best practices for transcribing multimodal robot actions, focusing on sound. Robots animate the action repertoires that they are given by their designers and can do so again and again, producing …
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