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 & Keevallik 2023: Human vocalizations & robot sound design

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 …

Pelikan 2023: Transcribing human–robot interaction

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 …

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 …