Forschung & Projekte - Interaktion & Raum

Eine Person schaut auf einen Roboter, der neben einem Gemälde steht.

01/2012 - 12/2020Interaction & Space - From Conversation Analysis to the Development of Dynamic Interaction Models for Human-Robot Interaction.

Taking the scenario of a museum tour as an example, the project investigates how 'interaction space' is produced and dynamically reconfigured in situ by the participants in multimodal interaction. This is investigated through the interactive organisation of transitions between exhibits, referential practices and participation in multi-person constellations.

The video-based micro-analysis of human interaction behaviour is combined with the modelling of local building blocks for communicative-coordinative practices in human-robot interaction from a methodological and conceptual point of view. These will be tested and evaluated through studies of visitors' interactive interaction with a museum robot both in the 'real world' museum and in semi-experimental lab settings.

Funding & Team

Publications

Methodological & Conceptual Reflection

  • Pitsch, K. (2016). Limits and Opportunities for Mathematizing Communicational Conduct for Social Robotics in the Real-World? Towards enabling a Robot to make use of the Human's Competences. AI & Society, 31 (4), S. 587-593. [DOI]

Interaction & space

  • Pitsch, K. (2012). Exponat - Alltagsgegenstand - Turngerät: Zur interaktiven Konstitution von Objekten in einer Museumsausstellung. In: R. Schmitt, L. Mondada, & H. Hausendorf (Hg.), Raum als interaktionale Ressource (S. 233-273). Tübingen: Narr.

 

Deixis & Referential Practices

  • Pitsch, K., Dankert, T., Gehle, R., & Wrede, S. (2016). Referential practices. Effects of a museum guide robot suggesting a deictic 'repair' action to visitors attempting to orient to an exhibit. In: Ro-Man 2016, New York, S.225-231. [DOI]

  • Dankert, T., Görlich, M., Wrede, S., Gehle, R., & Pitsch, K. (2016). Engagement Detection During Deictic References in Human-Robot-Interaction. In: ICSR 2016, Kansas City, S. 930-939. [DOI]

  • Pitsch, K., & Wrede, S. (2014). When a robot orients visitors to an exhibit. Referential practices and interactional dynamics in real world HRI. In: Ro-Man 2014, Edinburgh, S. 36-42. [DOI]

 

Question-answer sequences

  • Pitsch, K. (2020). Répondre aux questions d’un robot. Dynamique de participation des groupes adultes-enfants dans les rencontres avec un robot guide du musée. Reseaux. Communication - Technologie - Société, S. 115 - 150. [DOI]

  • Pitsch, K., Dankert, T., Gehle, R., & Wrede, S. (2017). Interactional Dynamics in User Groups. Answering a Robot's Questions in Adult-Child Constellations. In: HAI 2017, Bielefeld, S. 393-307. [DOI]

  • Gehle, R., Pitsch, K., & Wrede, S. (2014). Signaling Trouble in Robot-To-Group Interaction: Emerging Visitor Dynamics With a Museum Guide Robot. In: HAI 2014, Tsukuba, S. 361-368.

Opening of a Focused Encounter

  • Scheffler, J., & Pitsch, K. (2020). Pre-beginnings in Human-Robot Encounters. Dealing with time delay. In: ECSCW 2020, Siegen. [DOI]

  • Gehle, R., Pitsch, K., Dankert, T., & Wrede, S. (2017). How to Open an Interaction Between Robot and Visitor? Strategies to Establish a Focused Encounter in HRI. In: HRI 2017, Vienna, S. 187-195. [DOI]

  • Gehle, R., Pitsch, K., Dankert, T., & Wrede, S. (2016). How to start a robot-guided museum tour? Using a robot's capabilities and a wizard's interactional competences during opening. In: Ro-Man 2016, New York, S. 914-915.

  • Pitsch, K. (2015). Ko-Konstruktion in der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion. Kontingenz, Erwartungen und Routinen in der Eröffnung. In: U. Dausendschön-Gay, E. Gülich, & U. Krafft (Hg.), Ko-Konstruktionen in der Interaktion. Die gemeinsame Arbeit an Äußerungen und anderen sozialen Ereignissen (S. 229-258). Bielefeld: Transkript. [DOI]

  • Gehle, R., Pitsch, K., Dankert, T., & Wrede, S. (2015). Trouble-based group dynamics in real-world HRI - Reactions on unexpected next moves of a museum guide robot. In: Ro-Man 2015, Kobe, S. 407-412. [DOI]

  • Pitsch, K., Kuzuoka, H., Suzuki, Y., Süssenbach, L., Luff, P., & Heath, C. (2009). "The first five seconds". Contigent stepwise entry into an interaction as a means to secure sustained engagement. In: Ro-Man 2009, S. 985-991. [DOI]

  • Kuzuoka, H., Pitsch, K., Suzuki, Y., Kawaguchi, I., Yamazaki, K., Kuno, Y., Luff, P. (2008). Effects of Restarts and Pauses on Achieving a State of Mutual Gaze between a Human and a Robot. In: CSCW 2008, S. 201-204. [PDF]

Participation & Gaze

  • Gehle, R., Amrhein, A., Krug, M., & Pitsch, K. (2015). Towards Using Eye-Tracking Data as Basis for Conversation Analysis in Real-World Museum Interaction. In: SAGA 2015 (Workshop on Solutions for Automatic Gaze-Data Analysis), Bielefeld, 2 Seiten. 

  • Pitsch, K., Gehle, R., & Wrede, S. (2013). A museum guide robot: Dealing with multiple participants in the real-world. In: Workshop "Robots in public spaces. Towards multi-party, short-term, dynamic human-robot interaction" at ICSR 2013, 4 Seiten. [PDF]

  • Pitsch, K., Gehle, R., & Wrede, S. (2013). Addressing Multiple Participants: A Museum Robot's Gaze Shapes Visitor Participation. In: ICSR 2013, S. 587-588. [PDF]

Funded by:

Dilthey Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation

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Project team

Academic Team

  • Prof. Dr Karola Pitsch (PI)
  • Raphaela Gehle, M.A. (2015 - 2018)
  • Joline Scheffler, M.A. (01/2020 - 12/2020)

In cooperation with:

University of Bielefeld

  • Dr Sebastian Wrede, Faculty of Technology

  • Timo Dankert, Faculty of Engineering

Bielefeld Historical Museum

Art Gallery Bielefeld