We describe a “centipede's dilemma” that faces the sciences of human interaction. Research
on human interaction has been involved in extensive theoretical debate, although the vast …

Conversational entrainment, also known as alignment, accommodation, convergence, and
coordination, is broadly defined as similarity of communicative behavior between …

Spoken dialogue systems are increasingly being used to facilitate and enhance human
communication. While these interactive systems can process the linguistic aspects of human …

During conversational interactions such as tutoring, instruction-giving tasks, verbal
negotiations, or just talking with friends, interlocutors' behaviors experience a series of …

Communication is characterized by speakers' dynamic adaptations and coordination of both
linguistic and non-verbal behaviors. Understanding this phenomenon of alignment and its …

Social robots such as learning companions, therapeutic assistants, and tour guides are
dependent on the challenging task of establishing a rapport with their users. People rarely …

We present data on convergence in the Switchboard corpus, ad-dressing differences across
measures and across speakers. Wemeasured convergence in four characteristics, to test …

Teachable agents are pedagogical agents that employ the 'learning-by-teaching'strategy,
which facilitates learning by encouraging students to construct explanations, reflect on …

The analysis of affective or communicational states in human-human and human-computer
interaction (HCI) using automatic machine analysis and learning approaches often suffers …

Conversational interaction is a dynamic activity in which participants engage in the
construction of meaning and in establishing and maintaining social relationships. Lexical …