Research & Projects
Perspective
Our research is dedicated to empirical, conceptual and methodological questions of language use, communicative practices and social interaction.
We investigate the verbal-language and multimodal processes mobilised by interaction participants as communicative resources in social interaction. The focus is on interactive-coordinative dynamics between the participants and the dynamic interplay of, especially, verbal language, gaze, gestures, movement in space and the production or manipulation of material structures. We explore this in authentic everyday situations, semi-experimental studies and technically mediatised scenarios, taking both a basic and application-oriented approach.
Research projects
2012 - 2020 Interaction & Space
From Conversation Analysis to the Development of Dynamic Interaction Models for Human-Robot Interaction.
2017 - 2020 Communication in Disaster Medicine
Communication and "professional vision" in disaster medicine. Changing the role of the emergency doctor in a crisis.
2015 - 2018 COMPASS Project
Socially cooperative virtual assistants as day companions for people with support needs.
2013 - 2018 Incrementality in HRI
Interactive coordination and incrementality in human-robot interaction. A robot as a museum guide.
2013 - 2014 Understood ("Verstanden")
Communication assurance in speech dialogue-based human-technology interaction with an assistance system for people with age-related disabilities
2010 - 2014 Alignment in Augmented Reality based Cooperation
Alignment in cooperation under the conditions of augmented reality
2011 - 2013 Ein Roboter als Fitness Begleiter
Motivation in human-robot interaction under long-term conditions (Part of the DLR-funded project 'SoziRob')
Karola Pitsch, supervising PostDoc.
2008 - 2012 iTalk
Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots
Karola Pitsch, PostDoc.
2002 - 2006 Multimodality in Immersive Classroom Interaction
Dissertationsprojekt, Karola Pitsch