Pelikan et al. 2022: Prototyping with video and interaction analysis

In this course you will learn how to use video data for prototyping. The course provides hands-on training in working with video clips, including transcription and identification of relevant actions. You will familiarize with core interaction analytic concepts (grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis) and will learn how to do an action-by-action analysis. Working on …

Pelikan et al. 2023: Sound in human-robot interaction

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 …

Robinson, Pelikan et al 2023: Sound in human robot interaction

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 …

Pelikan’s 90% seminar w. guests Stuart Reeves, Brian Due

Hannah Pelikan, one of our wonderful PhD students in the non-lexical vocalizations team looking at human-robot interaction, recently had their penultimate thesis seminar, a practice defense, examined by Stuart Reeves, Brian Due, and Roberto Bresin. We were delighted to also host several talks and data sessions with our guests, including a higher seminar (on the …

Pelikan & Hofstetter 2022: Managing delays in human-robot interaction

Pelikan & Hofstetter have recently published "Managing Delays in Human-Robot Interaction". Abstract: Delays in the completion of joint actions are sometimes unavoidable. How should a robot communicate that it cannot immediately act or respond in a collaborative task? Drawing on video recordings of a face scanning activity in family homes, we investigate how humans make …