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Mindful tutors: Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robot

Autor(en)
Fischer, Kerstin ; Foth, Kilian ; Rohlfing, Katharina ; Wrede, Britta 0000-0003-1424-472X
Normierter Zeitschriftentitel
Interaction studies 
DOI
10.1075/is.12.1.06fis
URL
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2615384
Web of Science-ID
000289913500006

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Sprache
englisch
Darstellungsform
Text
Band
12
Ausgabe
1
Seitenbereich
134 - 161
Schlagwörter
child-directed speech (CDS) , computers-as-social-actors , human–robot interaction (HRI) , mindless transfer , motherese , motionese , register theory , robotese , social communication
DDC
006

It has been proposed that the design of robots might benefit from interactions that are similar to caregiver–child interactions, which is tailored to children’s respective capacities to a high degree. However, so far little is known about how people adapt their tutoring behaviour to robots and whether robots can evoke input that is similar to child-directed interaction.

The paper presents detailed analyses of speakers’ linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour, such as action demonstration, in two comparable situations: In one experiment, parents described and explained to their nonverbal infants the use of certain everyday objects; in the other experiment, participants tutored a simulated robot on the same objects. The results, which show considerable differences between the two situations on almost all measures, are discussed in the light of the computer-as-social-actor paradigm and the register hypothesis.

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