Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
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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Löfgren presented at NORDISCO23 in Tampere, "Are you serious? Depictions at opera rehearsals" Abstract: 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 performance. This paper focuses on …
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Kerrison presented at NORDISCO23 in Tampere on "Practices of initiation in sports cheering". Abstract: Instances of incipient talk have traditionally been defined as interactions where participants treat long silences as non-final and unproblematic "adjournments" (Schegloff & Sacks, 1973) of response relevance. This was originally understood in relation to speech but multimodal interaction research has been …
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Keevallik, Hofstetter, and Julia Katila (Tampere University) gave a sneak peak of their upcoming paper at Nordisco23 in Tampere, with the presentation "Sounds and touch during affective episodes between romantic partners", based on data collected by Julia Katila. Abstract: Research on interaction has only recently ventured into the domain of the senses, hitherto considered inaccessible …
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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 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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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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Hofstetter, Keevallik, Kerrison, Löfgren, Pelikan & Wiggins presented at OFTI, Uppsala, Sept. 21-22, 2023. Responses to response cries Goffman’s (1978) seminal work on response cries showed the social order inherent in the sounds often thought to be chaotic. While Goffman claimed that RCs produce “no dialog”, studies of recorded interaction show that RCs are regularly …
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Löfgren presenterade sin avhandling på OFTI konferensen, Sept. 21-22 2023, Uppsala. ”En situation, en kropp, som passar med musiken”: Gestaltningar under operarepetitioner I detta föredrag kommer jag att presentera resultat från min avhandling som ska publiceras i november i år. I avhandlingen studerar jag, med hjälp av multimodal interaktionsanalys (Broth & Keevallik, 2020), hur en …
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Non-lexical vocalizations 