Linguistic Alignment

Within the research area „Linguistic Alignment with virtual agents/robot“ we study how people align linguistically towards agents and robots during interaction and how they evaluate different verbal agent/robot behavior.

Focus of research

Besides classic experiments in which we examine whether, ho wand to what extend people align to artificial entities, we also conduct more applied experiments and explore the potential use of alignment processes in HCI to increase participants’ German language skills.

Contributors

Imgp0608 Imgp0594 Carolin Strassmann

 

Publications

Kühne, V., Rosenthal-von der Pütten, A. M., & Krämer, N. C. (2013). Using Linguistic Alignment to Enhance Learning Experience with Pedagogical Agents: The Special Case of Dialect. In R. Aylett, B. Krenn, C. Pelachaud, & H. Shimodaira (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 149–158). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40415-3_13

Klatt, J., Rosenthal-von der Pütten, A. M., Hoffmann, L., & Krämer, N. C. (2013). A Thousand Words Paint a Picture - Examining Interviewer Effects with Virtual Agents. In R. Aylett, B. Krenn, C. Pelachaud, & H. Shimodaira (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 452–454). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Rosenthal-von der Pütten, A. M., Wiering, L., & Krämer, N. C. (2013). Great minds think alike. Experimental study on lexical alignment in human-agent interaction. i-com Zeitschrift für interaktive und kooperative Medien, 12(1), 32-38. Doi: 10 .1524/ icom.230.10 005

Krämer, N. C., Kopp, S., Becker-Asano, C. & Sommer, N. (2013). Smile and the world will smile with you. The effects of a virtual agent´s smile on users´ evaluation and behavior. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 71, 335-349.

Von der Pütten, A.M., Hoffmann, L., Klatt, J. & Krämer, N.C. (2011). Quid Pro Quo? Reciprocal Self-disclosure and Communicative Accomodation towards a Virtual Interviewer. In H. H. Vilhjálmsson et al. (Eds.): Intelligent Virtual Agents 2011, LNAI 6895 (pp. 183-194). Heidelberg: Springer. (best paper finalist)

 

Contact

Dr. Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten

Laura Hoffmann, M. Sc.

Carolin Strassmann, M. Sc.

BMBF-Projekt noALIEN

 

(Using linguistic alignment in German language promotion for immigrants on the basis of human-technology interaction)

In the research area „Linguistic Alignement“ we work on the project noALIEN which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research in the program “human-technology interaction for the demographic change”.