Agnes Löfgren has published on how opera rehearsal participants use relocations and reorganize their spatial arrangements in order to do depictions for each other. Relocating to depict: Managing the interactional agenda at opera rehearsals. A performer in an opera has to portray the character they are playing not only through the music but also in …
Keevallik & Hofstetter: Special issue on Sounding for Others
Keevallik & Hofstetter have edited a special issue on the phenomenon of Sounding for Others, in Language & Communication. Thank you to our wonderful collaborators for their excellent papers. Summaries of the texts can be found below: Editorial abstract by Keevallik & Hofstetter: Standard models of language and communication depart from the assumption that speakers …
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Keevallik et al. 2023: Sounding for others
Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter, Ann Weatherall & Sally Wiggins have published an article defining and providing an overview of the phenomenon of 'sounding for others'. This study investigates the practice of “sounding for others,” wherein one person vocalizes to enact someone else’s putatively ongoing bodily sensation. We argue that it constitutes a collaborative way of performing …
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Pelikan 2023: Robot sound in interaction
Pelikan, H.R.M. (2023). Robot Sound-In-Interaction. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23 Companion), March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3579975 Abstract: Sound is an important interaction modality in human interaction, which robot design is only starting to tap into. Drawing on insights about how human sounds support …
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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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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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. …
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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Pekarek Doehler et al. 2022: The Grammar-Body Interface in Social Interaction
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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Non-lexical vocalizations 