Anna-Lisa Vollmer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna-Lisa Vollmer is involved.
Articles
2021 Why robots should be technical: Correcting mental models through technical architecture concepts Interaction Studies 22:2, pp. 244–279 | Article
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… read more
2014 Tutoring in adult-child interaction: On the loop of the tutor’s action modification and the recipient’s gaze Interaction Studies 15:1, pp. 55–98 | Article
Research of tutoring in parent-infant interaction has shown that tutors – when presenting some action – modify both their verbal and manual performance for the learner (‘motherese’, ‘motionese’). Investigating the sources and effects of the tutors’ action modifications, we suggest an interactional… read more
2013 Robot feedback shapes the tutor’s presentation: How a robot’s online gaze strategies lead to micro-adaptation of the human’s conduct Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective, Nomikou, Iris, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing (eds.), pp. 268–296 | Article
The paper investigates the effects of a humanoid robot’s online feedback during a tutoring situation in which a human demonstrates how to make a frog jump across a table. Motivated by micro-analytic studies of adult-child-interaction, we investigated whether tutors react to a robot’s gaze… read more