This study focuses on dialogue breakdowns that can occur in robot-assisted language
learning (RALL). Our aim is to analyse how children use gaze to resolve these breakdowns …

Despite its elusiveness as a concept,'artificial intelligence'(AI) is becoming part of everyday
life, and a range of empirical and methodological approaches to social studies of AI now …

This article analyzes various kinds of interactional trouble occurring in task-oriented human-
robot interaction. We focus on users' repair strategies, typically used for maintaining …

Robots that can talk and move may turn from tools to potential participants, which poses new
methodological challenges, particularly for transcription. This chapter first presents best …

In dialogues between robots or computers and humans, dialogue breakdown analysis is an
important tool for achieving better chat dialogues. Conventional dialogue breakdown …

Interaction is a dynamic process that evolves in real time. Participants interpret and orient
themselves towards turns of speech based on expectations of relevance and …

The paper considers whether is it possible to view interactions with so-called conversational
agents (chatbots, voice assistants, etc.) as a form of conversation. It is argued here that such …

Robots naturally emit sound, but we still know little about how sound can serve as an
interface that makes a robot's behavior explainable to humans. This dissertation draws on …

In this paper, we address challenges arising from the use of the conversational interface Siri
in pedagogical contexts. On one hand, we investigate potentialities of Siri as a virtual …

Robotic software development frameworks lack a possibility to present, validate and
generate qualitative complex human robot interactions and robot developers are mostly left …