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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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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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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Keevallik, Hofstetter, Löfgren, & Wiggins presented at the Embodied Syntax Network conference, Sept 8 2023, on the syntax of response cries. Abstract: The essence of response cries, as described by Goffman (1978), is that their sequential placement in the immediate aftermath of an event performs them as visceral reactions to this event. While some studies …
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Keevallik is presenting the keynote address at Copenhagen Multimodality Day, October 6th. Beyond sequentiality: The broad field of interaction analysis has traditionally relied on the understanding that participants act after each other, one at a time (Sacks et al. 1974), with regular exceptions such as terminal overlap or “early” responses (Depperman et al. 2021). Several …
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Keevallik recently presented at the Mannheim seminar series in Sprache – Leib – Interaktion, as a guest lecturer. Vocal and syntactic aspects of embodied togetherness Abstract: In this talk I will depart from activities where people are involved in embodied tasks, such as practicing pilates, learning to dance, or shoveling dung, in order to explore …
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Non-lexical vocalizations 