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Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Gaoxin Li
This article reviews Pragmatics Online 9781138368415
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Delineating the field of language evolution research Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Stefan Hartmann, Sławomir Wacewicz, Andrea Ravignani, Daria Valente, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Rie Asano, Yannick Jadoul
Research on language evolution is an established subject area yet permeated by terminological controversies about which topics should be considered pertinent to the field and which not. By consequence, scholars focusing on language evolution struggle in providing precise demarcations of the discipline, where even the very central notions of evolution and language are elusive. We aimed at providing
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Backchannels in the lab and in the wild Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Allison Nguyen, Andrew J. Guydish, Jean E. Fox Tree
Backchannel choices affect conversational development. Some backchannels invite interlocutors to continue to the next part of what they are saying and others invite them to elaborate on what they have just said. We tested how communicative modality (audiovisual, audio, text), environmental setting (wholly in-lab, partially in the wild), and conversational goals (on-task, off-task) influenced backchannel
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Towards accessible robot-assisted physical play for children with physical disabilities Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Hamza Mahdi, Melanie Jouaiti, Shahed Saleh, Kerstin Dautenhahn
MyJay is an open-source robot designed to facilitate play between children with and without physical disabilities. The robot acts as a proxy for children with upper limb challenges, allowing them to participate in physical games with their peers. Our design was inspired by the FIRST Robotics Competition, which involves teleoperating robots to manipulate objects. Taking a user-centred perspective, we
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Exploring the construct of interactional competence in different types of oral communication assessment Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Sonca Vo
Research on interaction in speaking assessment suggests that both verbal and nonverbal interaction are integral parts of the construct of interactional competence (Galaczi & Taylor, 2018; Plough et al., 2018; Young, 2011). However, little has been done to investigate which features significantly contribute to interactional competence scores. This study, therefore, examined which interaction features
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Review of Wong & Waring (2021): Review of Storytelling in multilingual interaction: A conversation analysis perspective Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Sun Jianguang
This article reviews Review of Storytelling in multilingual interaction: A conversation analysis perspective 9780367139247
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Dog talk Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Robert W. Mitchell
Canid and human barks and growls were examined in videotapes of 24 humans (Homo sapiens) and 24 dogs (Canis familiaris) playing with familiar and unfamiliar cross-species play partners. Barks and growls were exhibited by 9 humans and 9 dogs. Dogs barked and (less often) growled most frequently when being frustrated by humans and/or engaged in competitive games, and less often when being chased or inviting
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Infants’ imitative learning from third-party observations Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Gunilla Stenberg
In two separate experiments, we examined 17-month-olds’ imitation in a third-party context. The aim was to explore how seeing another person responding to a model’s novel action influenced infant imitation. The infants watched while a reliable model demonstrated a novel action with a familiar (Experiment 1) or an unfamiliar (Experiment 2) object to a second actor. The second actor either imitated or
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Human risk factors in cybersecurity Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Tom Cuchta, Brian Blackwood, Thomas R. Devine, Robert J. Niichel
This article presents an experimental analysis of several cybersecurity risks affecting the human attack surface of Fairmont State University, a mid-size state university. We consider two social engineering experiments: a phishing email barrage and a targeted spearphishing campaign. In the phishing experiment, a total of 4,769 students, faculty, and staff on campus were targeted by 90,000 phishing
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Texting!!! Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Elena Nicoladis, Amen Duggal, Alexandra Besoi Setzer
Previous research shows that females use more exclamation marks than males, often to establish rapport. The purpose of the present studies was to test whether people associate texters’ use of exclamation marks with friendliness and femaleness. If this association is due to normative expectations, we hypothesized that females would appear less friendly if they did not use an exclamation mark in texting
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A matter of consequences Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Alessandra Rossi, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay, Michael L. Walters
On reviewing the literature regarding acceptance and trust in human-robot interaction (HRI), there are a number of open questions that needed to be addressed in order to establish effective collaborations between humans and robots in real-world applications. In particular, we identified four principal open areas that should be investigated to create guidelines for the successful deployment of robots
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Coordination between vehicles in traffic Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Mariavittoria Masotina, Anna Spagnolli
This study belongs to the ethnomethodological tradition of identifying the everyday practices accounting for the oiled machinery of social organization and applies this approach to understanding direction light usage. We observe a set of episodes videorecorded in North-East Italy in the urban traffic. We first unpack the meaning of direction light usage from a pragmatic perspective and then test our
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Water, lava, and wind Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 S. Camille Peres, Ranjana K. Mehta, Robin R. Murphy
Small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) are used more regularly and widely in disaster response. Like other personnel involved in disaster response, the sUAS pilots work for long periods, experience extreme stress and fatigue. They often arrive at the disaster fatigued (due to long drives to get there). However, unlike other personnel in this domain, there is little research on the effects of fatigue
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Soundboard-using pets? Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Amalia P. M. Bastos, Federico Rossano
The first studies that sought to establish two-way communication between humans and great apes led to important findings but were nevertheless heavily criticized for their training methods, testing procedures, and claims. More recently, hundreds of pet owners around the world have begun training domesticated animals to use Augmentative Interspecies Communication (AIC) soundboard devices, contributing
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Technological advances for getting insight into the learning capacities of birds in the vocal domain Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-03
Abstract Birds produce different types of sounds in different contexts such as begging for food in youngsters, alerting to a danger, defending a territory or attracting a sexual partner. About half of the bird species are able to transform their vocalizations through imitation, improvisation or invention of sounds. Here we review the different experimental procedures that have been used to study the
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Sonic enrichment at the zoo Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Rébecca Kleinberger
There is a strong disconnect between humans and other species in our societies. Zoos particularly expose this disconnect by displaying the asymmetry between visitors in search of entertainment, and animals often suffering from a lack of meaningful interactions and natural behaviors. In zoos, many species are unable to mate, raise young, or exhibit engagement behaviors. Enrichment is a way to enhance
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Systematic iterative design of interactive devices for animals Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
The numerous systems designed to facilitate animals’ use of computers often are specific to the animals involved, their unique context, and the applications – enrichment among them. Hence, several development methods have arisen in parallel, largely transposed from the human-computer interaction (HCI) domain. In light of that prior work, the paper presents a step-by-step guide for iteratively designing
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A biosemiotics perspective on dogs’ interaction with interfaces Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Clara Mancini
Understanding how animals might make sense of the interfaces they interact with is important to inform the design of animal-centered interactions. In this regard, biosemiotics provides a useful lens through which to examine animals’ interactions with interfaces and the sensemaking mechanisms that might underpin such interactions. This paper leverages Uexküll’s Umwelt theory, Peirce’s logic of sign
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Animal-computer interfaces Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Irene M. Pepperberg
The field of animal-computer interfaces has a longer history than one might at first suppose. In this Introduction, I first discuss some of the early attempts to integrate computers into the study of animal cognition, communication, and behavior and how they provided the groundwork for subsequent research in nonhuman-computer interfaces. I then summarize the various contributions to this special issue
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Quietly angry, loudly happy Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-28
Abstract Phone calls are an essential communication channel in today’s contact centers, but they are more difficult to analyze than written or form-based interactions. To that end, companies have traditionally used surveys to gather feedback and gauge customer satisfaction. In this work, we study the relationship between self-reported customer satisfaction (CSAT) and automatic utterance-level indicators
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From vocal prosody to movement prosody, from HRI to understanding humans Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Philip Scales, Véronique Aubergé, Olivier Aycard
Human–Human and Human–Robot Interaction are known to be influenced by a variety of modalities and parameters. Nevertheless, it remains a challenge to anticipate how a given mobile robot’s navigation and appearance will impact how it is perceived by humans. Drawing a parallel with vocal prosody, we introduce the notion of movement prosody, which encompasses spatio-temporal and appearance dimensions
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Grapheme–phoneme correspondence learning in parrots Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jennifer M. Cunha, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Rèbecca Kleinberger, Susan Clubb, Lynn K. Perry
Symbolic representation acquisition is the complex cognitive process consisting of learning to use a symbol to stand for something else. A variety of non-human animals can engage in symbolic representation learning. One particularly complex form of symbol representation is the associations between orthographic symbols and speech sounds, known as grapheme–phoneme correspondence. To date, there has been
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Full-duplex acoustic interaction system for cognitive experiments with cetaceans Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jörg Rychen, Julie Semoroz, Alexander Eckerle, Richard HR Hahnloser, Rébecca Kleinberger
Cetaceans show high cognitive abilities and strong social bonds. Their primary sensory modality to communicate and sense the environment is acoustics. Research on their echolocation and social vocalizations typically uses visual and tactile systems adapted from research on primates or birds. Such research would benefit from a purely acoustic communication system to better match their natural capabilities
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The Puss in Boots effect Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jemma Forman, Louise Brown, Holly Root-Gutteridge, Graham Hole, Raffaela Lesch, Katarzyna Pisanski, David Reby
Pet-directed speech (PDS) is often produced by humans when addressing dogs. Similar to infant-directed speech, PDS is marked by a relatively higher and more modulated fundamental frequency (f0) than is adult-directed speech. We tested the prediction that increasing eye size in dogs, one facial feature of neoteny (juvenilisation), would elicit exaggerated prosodic qualities or pet-directed speech. We
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Toward a multimodal and continuous approach of infant-adult interactions Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Marianne Jover, Maya Gratier
Adult-infant early dyadic interactions have been extensively explored by developmental psychologists. Around the age of 2 months, infants already demonstrate complex, delicate and very sensitive behaviors that seem to express their ability to interact and share emotions with their caregivers. This paper presents 3 pilot studies of parent-infant dyadic interaction in various set-ups. The first two present
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Vocal interactivity in-and-between humans, animals and robots Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Mohamed Chetouani, Elodie F. Briefer, Angela Dassow, Ricard Marxer, Roger K. Moore, Nicolas Obin, Dan Stowell
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Toward understanding the effects of socially aware robot behavior Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Oliver Roesler, Elahe Bagheri, Amir Aly
A key factor for the acceptance of robots as regular partners in human-centered environments is the appropriateness and predictability of their behaviors, which depend partially on the robot behavior’s conformity to social norms. Previous experimental studies have shown that robots that follow social norms and the corresponding interactions are perceived more positively by humans than robots or interactions
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Towards socially-competent and culturally-adaptive artificial agents Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Chiara Bassetti, Enrico Blanzieri, Stefano Borgo, Sofia Marangon
The development of artificial agents for social interaction pushes to enrich robots with social skills and knowledge about (local) social norms. One possibility is to distinguish the expressive and the functional orders during a human-robot interaction. The overarching aim of this work is to set a framework to make the artificial agent socially-competent beyond dyadic interaction – interaction in varying
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Learning social navigation from demonstrations with conditional neural processes Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Yigit Yildirim, Emre Ugur
Sociability is essential for modern robots to increase their acceptability in human environments. Traditional techniques use manually engineered utility functions inspired by observing pedestrian behaviors to achieve social navigation. However, social aspects of navigation are diverse, changing across different types of environments, societies, and population densities, making it unrealistic to use
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An epistemic logic for formalizing group dynamics of agents Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Stefania Costantini, Andrea Formisano, Valentina Pitoni
In the multi-agent setting, it is relevant to model group dynamics of agents, and logic has proved a good tool to do so. We propose an epistemic logic, L-DINF-E, that allows one to formalize what are the beliefs formed by a group of agents, where several groups exist and agents can pass from a group to another one. We introduce a new modality which allows an agent to reason about the beliefs of other
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Social appropriateness in HMI Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Ricarda Wullenkord, Jacqueline Bellon, Bruno Gransche, Sebastian Nähr-Wagener, Friederike Eyssel
Social appropriateness is an important topic – both in the human-human interaction (HHI), and in the human-machine interaction (HMI) context. As sociosensitive and socioactive assistance systems advance, the question arises whether a machine’s behavior should include considerations regarding social appropriateness. However, the concept of social appropriateness is difficult to define, as it is determined
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Socially acceptable robot behavior Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Oliver Roesler, Elahe Bagheri, Amir Aly, Silvia Rossi, Rachid Alami
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Review of Pickering & Garrod (2021): Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Delin Liu
This article reviews Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction 978-1-108-47361-3
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Review of Kristiansen, Franco, De Pascale, Rosseel & Zhang (2021): Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Shuqiong Wu, Qiaoling Liang
This article reviews Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited 9783110738513
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Talking about moving machines Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Céline Pieters, Emmanuelle Danblon, Philippe Souères, Jean-Paul Laumond
Globally, robots can be described as some sets of moving parts that are dedicated to a task while using their own energy. Yet, humans commonly qualify those machines as being intelligent, autonomous or being able to learn, know, feel, make decisions, etc. Is it merely a way of talking or does it mean that robots could eventually be more than a complex set of moving parts? On the one hand, the language
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What’s in a mime? Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz
Several lines of research within developmental psychology, experimental semiotics and language origins studies have recently converged in their interest in pantomime as a system of bodily communication distinct from both language (spoken or signed) and nonlinguistic gesticulation. These approaches underscore the effectiveness of pantomime, which despite lack of semiotic conventions is capable of communicating
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Exploring space for robot mistakes in child robot interactions Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Rebecca Stower, Rania Abdelghani, Marisa Tschopp, Keegan Evangelista, Mohamed Chetouani, Arvid Kappas
Understanding the impact of robot errors in child-robot-interactions (CRI) is critical, as current technological systems are still limited and may randomly present a variety of mistakes during interactions with children. In this study we manipulate a task-based error of a NAO robot during a semi-autonomous computational thinking task implemented with the Cozmo robot. Data from 72 children aged 7–10
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Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Nigel Newbutt, Louis Rice, Séverin Lemaignan, Joe Daly, Vicky Charisi, Iian Conley
Social robots have the potential to support autistic school children with their wellbeing. This research reveals how a co-design approach with autistic children and their teachers was undertaken. Focus groups with autistic children and teachers collaboratively identified user requirements for the social robot and robot behaviours within the school ecosystem in order to improve student wellbeing. The
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Measuring mental wellbeing of children via human-robot interaction Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Nida Itrat Abbasi, Micol Spitale, Peter B. Jones, Hatice Gunes
During the last decade, children have shown an increasing need for mental wellbeing interventions due to their anxiety and depression issues, which the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated. Socially Assistive Robotics have been shown to have a great potential to support children with mental wellbeing-related issues. However, understanding how robots can be used to aid the measurement of these issues is
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Child-robot interaction Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Marta Couto, Shruti Chandra, Elmira Yadollahi, Vicky Charisi
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Review of Ibbotson (2020): What it Takes to Talk: Exploring Developmental Cognitive Linguistics Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Yanyan Jiang, Shuqiong Wu
This article reviews What it Takes to Talk: Exploring Developmental Cognitive Linguistics 978-3-11-064441-8
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Interacting with an embodied interface Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Kwan Min Lee, Jae-gil Lee, Young June Sah
Despite their potential for facilitating interaction between a user and computer, an embodied agent and voice command have not been examined enough for their matching effects. The current study proposes that an embodied agent and voice command generate positive evaluative outcomes, particularly when they are accompanied by each other. To test this prediction, we conducted a 2 (visual output: embodied
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Social gaze training for Autism Spectrum Disorder using eye-tracking and virtual humans Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Ouriel Grynszpan, Julie Bouteiller, Séverine Grynszpan, Jean-Claude Martin, Jacqueline Nadel
Background: Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have pronounced difficulties in attending to relevant visual information during social interactions. Method: We designed and evaluated the feasibility of a novel method to train this ability, by exposing participants to virtual human characters displayed on a screen which was entirely blurred, except for a gaze-contingent viewing window that
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Differences in game playability between healthy players and problematic players Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Elena Carolina Li
Games played on mobile phones or tablets have become a serious game platform. In the new International Classification of Diseases in 2019, the WHO now includes video game disorder as a mental disease, this highlights the seriousness of game addiction which has now become a global problem. Game design may be one of the factors that affect game addiction. Game playability can be used to evaluate the
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“I know how you feel” Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Antonio Andriella, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Santiago Forgas-Coll, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà
In this article, we aim to evaluate the role of robots’ personality-driven behavioural patterns on users’ intention to use in an entertainment scenario. Toward such a goal, we designed two personalities: one introverted with an empathic and self-comparative interaction style, and the other extroverted with a provocative and other-comparative interaction style. To evaluate the proposed technology acceptance
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Imitation, focus of attention and social behaviours of children with autism spectrum disorder in interaction with robots Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Sanja Šimleša, Jasmina Stošić, Irena Bilić, Maja Cepanec
Many studies have shown that using robot platforms can be effective for teaching children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The aim of this study was to compare performance on an imitation task, as well as focus attention levels and the presence of social behaviours of children with ASD and typically developing (TD) children during an imitation task under two different conditions, with robots and
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In the same boat Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Kerstin Fischer, Lars Christian Jensen, Nadine Zitzmann
In this paper, we analyze what effects indicators of a shared situation have on a speaker’s persuasiveness by investigating how a robot’s advice is received when it indicates that it is sharing the situational context with its user. In our experiment, 80 participants interacted with a robot that referred to aspects of the shared context: Face tracking indicated that the robot saw the participant, incremental
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Influencing robot influence Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Jaap Ham
In the near future, robots will function in social roles and attempt to influence the user’s behavior and / or thinking. The current contribution analyses how to influence robot influence: Persuasive robots can be personalized to make them more effective. We present an overview of (1) the user characteristics to which persuasive robots can be personalized, (2) considering the specific current situation
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More than advice Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Rosalyn M. Langedijk, Jaap Ham
Persuasive social robots can influence human behavior through giving advice. The current study investigates whether references to prior discourse and signals of empathy make an advice-giving robot an even more effective persuader and whether participants follow the robot’s advice and drink even more water when the robot additionally uses these strategies. We recruited students and university staff
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Persuasion in science communication Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Monika Hanauska, Annette Leßmöllmann
Science communication has gained high importance in the current knowledge and risk society. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of qualitative studies on how non-experts and experts engage in opinionated scientific debates and which linguistic devices they use to gain influence on other people’s attitudes toward a scientific issue. In our study, we examine dialogical modes of science communication
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What influences influence? Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Kerstin Fischer, Jaap Ham
This special issue addresses how aspects of the communicative situation influence how influential persuasive utterances (or other strategies of influence) are in their contexts of use. Specifically, we study the effects of interactional, speaker-, addressee- and channel-related factors and of the interpersonal relationship between speaker and hearer, as well as the effects of referring to the shared
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How versatility performance influences perception of charismatic speech Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Oliver Niebuhr, Vered Silber-Varod
The concept of vocal charisma has changed in the past decades from something that people have to something that people do, thereby stimulating research on how vocal charisma can be created and improved. Broadening the perspective on vocal charisma beyond the speaker’s performance itself to the context of the speech, we conducted acoustic-prosodic analyses of public speeches of two prominent Israelian
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The influence of repeated interactions on the persuasiveness of simulation Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Kenny K. N. Chow
Mental or computer simulation of cause and effect of certain behaviors is a recognized approach to changing one’s attitude or triggering an action. Meanwhile, psychology research results suggest that frequency of simulation may affect the corresponding persuasiveness. This paper argues that with always-on sensing and data-driven visualization technologies, interactive tangible systems can be designed
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Review of Szabó & Thomason (2019): Philosophy of Language Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Sicheng Nie
This article reviews Philosophy of Language 978-1-107-48062-9
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Impact of nonverbal robot behaviour on human teachers’ perceptions of a learner robot Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Pourya Aliasghari, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn
How do we perceive robots practising a task that we have taught them? While learning, human trainees usually provide nonverbal cues that reveal their level of understanding and interest in the task. Similarly, nonverbal social cues of trainee robots that can be interpreted naturally by humans can enhance robot learning. In this article, we investigated a scenario in which a robot is practising a physical
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Why robots should be technical Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Lukas Hindemith, Jan Philip Göpfert, Christiane B. Wiebel-Herboth, Britta Wrede, Anna-Lisa Vollmer
Research in social robotics is commonly focused on designing robots that imitate human behavior. While this might increase a user’s satisfaction and acceptance of robots at first glance, it does not automatically aid a non-expert user in naturally interacting with robots, and might hurt their ability to correctly anticipate a robot’s capabilities. We argue that a faulty mental model, that the user
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Review of Egbert & Baker (2020): Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Haiyan Tian, Fan Pan
This article reviews Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis 9781138082540
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Interaction history as a source of compositionality in emergent communication Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Tomasz Korbak, Julian Zubek, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
In this paper, we explore interaction history as a particular source of pressure for achieving emergent compositional communication in multi-agent systems. We propose a training regime implementing template transfer, the idea of carrying over learned biases across contexts. In the presented method, a sender-receiver dyad is first trained with a disentangled pair of objectives, and then the receiver
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Influencing laughter with AI-mediated communication Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Gregory Mills, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Chris Howes, Vladislav Maraev
Previous experimental findings support the hypothesis that laughter and positive emotions are contagious in face-to-face and mediated communication. To test this hypothesis, we describe four experiments in which participants communicate via a chat tool that artificially adds or removes laughter (e.g. haha or lol), without participants being aware of the manipulation. We found no evidence to support
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An empirical study on integrating a small humanoid robot to support the therapy of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability Interaction Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Daniela Conti, Grazia Trubia, Serafino Buono, Santo Di Nuovo, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Recent research showed the potential benefits of robot-assisted therapy in treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. These children often have some form of Intellectual Disability (ID) too, but this has mainly been neglected by previous robotics research. This article presents an empirical evaluation of robot-assisted imitation training, where the child imitated the robot, integrated into the