Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
Pelikan is presenting a paper at HRI 2021 on how autonomous buses must coordinate with pedestrians and other everyday road users in the social world of traffic. Abstract: Why Autonomous Driving Is So Hard: The Social Dimension of Traffic. Smooth traffic presupposes fine coordination between different actors, such as pedestrians, cyclists and car drivers. When …
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Wiggins and Keevallik have published a new article on how mothers use 'mm' sounds when feeding their infants, entitled 'Enacting gustatory pleasure on behalf of another: The multimodal coordination of infant tasting practices.' Available in Symbolic Interaction, open access. Abstract: Tasting as a social practice can be enacted on behalf of others through precisely positioned …
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Kontogiorgos and Pelikan presented at the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20 Companion), March 23–26, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Their paper was entitled 'Towards Adaptive and Least-Collaborative-Effort Social Robots'. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378249 Abstract: In the future, assistive social robots will collaborate with humans in a variety of settings. Robots will not only follow human orders but will …
Although not specifically coming out of this project, several of our team members worked on the new Swedish textbook explaining conversation analysis: Multimodal Interaktionsanalys, edited by Mathias Broth and Leelo Keevallik. Within the textbook, please see chapters from our team: Broth & Keevallik: Multimodal interaktionsanalys – att studera mänskligt samspel Keevallik: Grammatik Pelikan, Keevallik & …
Hofstetter has published an article in Discourse Processes: Achieving Preallocation: Turn Transition Practices in Board Games. Abstract: This paper contributes an analysis of practices for managing a preallocated turn-taking system in board games, expanding existing studies of preallocation beyond question-answer sequences. Although board games have existed for thousands of years across human cultures, and despite …
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Keevallik and Ogden have edited a special issue on Sounds on the margins of language - non-lexical vocalizations, response cries, whistles, breathing, and other 'liminal signs' (as Dingemanse writes in his discussant review of the special issue). Abstract: What do people do with sniffs, lip-smacks, grunts, moans, sighs, whistles, and clicks, where these are not …
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Hofstetter has published 'Nonlexical 'moans': Response cries in board games'. Abstract: This article examines nonlexical vocalizations in board game interactions, focusing on “moans.” Moans are prolonged, voiced, response cries. Moans react to game events where the player has suffered in some way. Despite the complaint-relevant nature of moans, game actions are never withdrawn in response …
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Keevallik is publishing an article in a collection on mobility and grammar: Keevallik, L. 2020. Linguistic structures emerging in the synchronization of a Pilates class. In C. Taleghani-Nikazm, E. Betz & P. Golato (Eds.), Mobilizing Others: Grammar and Lexis within Larger Activities (pp.147-173). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Abstract: This chapter targets grammar in the interactive process …
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Keevallik is publishing an article in a collection of cross-linguistic analysis on noun phrases: Keevallik, L. 2020. Multimodal noun phrases. In T. Ono & S. Thompson (Eds.), The 'Noun Phrase' across Languages: An Emergent Unit in Interaction (pp.153-176). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Abstract: In co-present interaction, our bodies are continuously available for sense-making. Linguists, however, have …
Pelikan, Broth and Keevallik will be publishing the following paper at HRI 2020. You can also see a video presentation of it! Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Mathias Broth, and Leelo Keevallik. 2020. ’Are You Sad, Cozmo?’ How Humans Make Sense of a Home Robot’s Emotion Displays. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on …
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Non-lexical vocalizations 