Titel: | Mindful tutors : Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robot; Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robot |
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Beteiligte: | , , , |
In: | Interaction Studies, 12, 2011, 1, S. 134-161 |
veröffentlicht: |
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 134-161 |
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ISSN: |
1572-0373
1572-0381 |
DOI: | 10.1075/is.12.1.06fis |
veröffentlicht in: | Interaction Studies |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Schlagwörter: | |
Kollektion: | John Benjamins Publishing Company (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>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 behaviour 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. Keywords: child-directed speech (CDS); motherese; robotese; motionese; register theory; social communication; human–robot interaction (HRI); computers-as-social-actors; mindless transfer</jats:p> |