Alignment in Communication

Name: Alignment in Communication | Towards a new theory of communication
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Towards a new theory of communication

Ipke Wachsmuth Jan de Ruiter Petra Jaecks Stefan Kopp(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 30. November 2013

VIII, 231 Seiten

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Alignment in Communication
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Subject and motivation
2. Why is a new perspective needed?
3. Development of the research area
4. Outline of contents
Acknowledgements
References
Methodological paradigms in interaction research
1. Introduction
2. On dependent and independent variables
3. The independent variable - the issue of control
4. The dependent variable and the problems of defining and counting
5. Strengths and weaknesses of different methods
5.1 Surreptitious recording of informal interactions
5.2 Recordings of informal interactions with consent of the recordees
5.3 Task-based but otherwise unscripted dialogue
5.4 Director-matcher paradigms
5.5 Scripted dialogue with confederates
5.6 Classical cognitive psychological experiments
6. Conclusion
References
A multidimensional activity based approach to communication
1. Why interesting?
2. What is "communication" and what is "activity"?
2.1 Communication
2.2 Joint activity
3. Some basic features of communication
3.1 A multidirectional flow of information
3.2 Every communicator both a producer and a recipient
3.3 Sensory multimodality and the three semiotic means of representation
4. Communication, cognition and context
4.1 Several degrees of processing
4.2 Coactivation
4.3 Types of content in communication and cognition
4.4 Sharing of content
4.5 Affective-epistemic grounding and stance
4.6 Context
5. Semantics and communication
5.1 Coactivation and meaning potentials
5.2 Compositionality and coconstruction
5.3 Compositionality
5.4 Coconstruction
6. Concluding remarks
References
On making syntax dynamic
1. Introduction
1.1 Language-as-action and the nature of linguistic knowledge
1.2 Dialogue within an action-based framework: Pickering and Garrod (2013)
2. Dynamic syntax
2.1 Grammar and coordination in joint activities
2.2 Dynamic action-based grammars and dialogue coordination
2.3 Incrementality and predictivity within the grammar architecture
3. Conclusion: low-level mechanisms for linguistic coordination and emergent intentions
Acknowledgements
References
Automatic and strategic alignment of co-verbal gestures in dialogue
1. Introduction
2. Alignment in co-verbal gestures
3. Analyzing gesture use in natural dialogue
3.1 What shapes the use of gestures?
3.2 Inter-personal coordination effects in gesture use?
3.3 Discussion
4. Towards an integrated model of strategic and automatic alignment
4.1 Speech and gesture production
4.2 Gesture perception
4.3 An integrated model of automatic and strategic coordination
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgement
References
Interaction phonology - A temporal co-ordination component enabling representational alignment within a model of communication
1. Motivation for an interaction phonology
1.1 Alignment vs. co-ordination?
1.2 Co-ordination of alignment in speech communication
1.3 Attention, co-ordination, and rhythm
1.4 Rhythm and phonology
2. A framework for interaction phonology
2.1 Entrainment as key process enabling interlocutor co-ordination
2.2 Entrainment in interaction
2.3 Entrainment in speech communication
2.4 Evaluating formal models of entrainment on conversational speech
2.4 Summary
3. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Communication as moving target tracking
1. Computational modelling of human communication
2. Communication as tracking moving targets
2.1 Entrainment and alignment
2.2 Communication and target tracking
3. The dynamic inference cycle in human communication
3.1 The Action-perception-learning cycle
3.2 Dynamic Bayesian inference
4. Markov decision processes and policy learning
4.1 Communication with rewards
4.2 Parsimony and novelty
5. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Language variation and mutual adaptation in interactive communication
1. Mutual adaptation as a central phenomenon that a theory of communication needs to explain
1.1 Aspects of communication
1.2 Mutual adaptation in communication
2. A role for linguistic variation in communication
2.1 Variability of language use
2.2 Social factors of language variation
2.3 Individual language processing and linguistic variation
2.4 Language variation, adaptation, and communication
3. The mechanisms of interactive adaptation, in the context of other factors of linguistic choice
References
"The hand is no banana!" On communicating natural kind terms to a robot
1. Motivation: Deep evaluation of HRI and the lesson to be learned from it
2. The capabilities of the robot (named "Flobi")
2.1 Interaction patterns for the tutorial dialogue
2.2 Acquiring NKTs
3. Problems in the communication between a human and the robot
3.1 Intuitive observations
3.2 The technical description of the failures
3.3 Explanation considering the dialogue structure
3.4 Two dialogues, internal coherence and external incoherence
3.5 Reasons for failures and how to amend them
4. The robot's acquisition of an NKT
5. The implication of the HRC research reported for developing a general theory of communication
5.1 The robot's learning of an NKT
5.2 Probing into arti cial minds
5.3 Robots as natural kinds
Acknowledgements
References
Interactive alignment and prediction in dialogue
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Comparing and contrasting the integrated account with other recent proposals
4. Conclusion and future challenges
References
What is the link between emotional and communicative alignment in interaction?
1. Emotion in communication
1.1 Emotional communication in humans
2. Emotional adaptation
2.1 Concepts of empathy
2.2 Theories of emotional adaptation
3. The link between emotional and linguistic adaptation
3.1 Emotional and linguistic adaptation in human-human interaction
3.2 Human-robot interaction: A computational three-layered model of emotional alignment
4. Future research
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Index
Contributors

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