Spatiotemporal Aspects of Engagement during Dialogic Storytelling Child–Robot Interaction

Spatiotemporal Aspects of Engagement during Dialogic Storytelling Child–Robot Interaction

The success of robotic agents in close proximity of humans depends on their capacity to engage in social interactions and maintain these interactions over periods of time that are suitable for learning. A critical requirement is the ability to modify the behavior of the robot contingently to the attentional and social cues signaled by the human. A benchmark challenge for an engaging social robo...

Spatiotemporal aspects in audiovisual interaction

The Effectiveness of Online Dialogic Storytelling on Vocabulary Skills of Hard of Hearing Children

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an online dialogic storytelling program on vocabulary skills (picture, relative, and oral vocabulary skills) of hard of hearing children. Methods: In this experimental study with pre-test-post-test and a control group design, 34 mothers of hard of hearing children participated. Children’s ages range from 4 to 6 years and t...

Edutainment Aspects in Hypermedia Storytelling

Hypermedia Storytelling allows the integration of edutainment aspects on multiple levels. In addition to directly integrating the information to learn into the story, digital media allow to link story elements that create interest in a particular topic to related background information sites. On another level not only the reception of a story can be used to transmit educational content, but als...

Describing faces: conventionalizing ontologies through dialogic interaction

INTRODUCTION • Although we are highly efficient at recognizing faces, we find it remarkably difficult to describe them to others, posing a challenge for forensic sciences. • This difficulty stems in part from the problem of expressing configural information about faces in words. • Previous research has shown that when interlocutors encounter a domain for which they have only vague descriptions,...