Katharina Rohlfing
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katharina Rohlfing plays a role.
Journal
Title
Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective
Edited by Iris Nomikou, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing
Special issue of Interaction Studies 14:2 (2013) xii, 178 pp.
Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
Four-year-olds’ visuospatial cognitive abilities and their relation to observer‑viewpoint gestures across three communicative tasks Pragmatics & Cognition 31:1, pp. 49–96 | Article
2024 The gesture-as-simulated-action framework explains the occurrence of iconic gestures. Accordingly, simulated visual imagery gives rise to observer-viewpoint, whereas simulated motor imagery gives rise to character-viewpoint gestures. Because little is known about whether this relationship is… read more
Explain with , rather than explain to: How explainees shape their own learning Interaction Studies 25:2, pp. 245–256 | Article
2024 Research about explanation processes is gaining relevance because of the increased popularity of artificial systems required to explain their function or outcome. Following an interactive approach, not only explainers but also explainees contribute to successful interactions. However, little is… read more
Chapter 4. Does emotional narrative context influence retention of newly learned words? Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention, Veneziano, Edy and Ageliki Nicolopoulou (eds.), pp. 91–107 | Chapter
2019 In this pilot study, we hypothesized that emotional information in stories allows children to become involved in the verbal interaction. This involvement, in turn, might result in improving children’s ability to learn new words. To test this hypothesis, 20 German-speaking 2-year-old children… read more
Language-at all times: Action and interaction as contexts for enriching representations Interaction Studies 17:1, pp. 128–153 | Article
2016 This article discusses the importance of social interaction for the development of the representations for symbolic communication. We suggest that there is no need to distinguish between different representational systems emerging at different stages of development. Instead, we propose that… read more
Tutoring in adult-child interaction: On the loop of the tutor’s action modification and the recipient’s gaze Interaction Studies 15:1, pp. 55–98 | Article
2014 Research of tutoring in parent-infant interaction has shown that tutors – when presenting some action – modify both their verbal and manual performance for the learner (‘motherese’, ‘motionese’). Investigating the sources and effects of the tutors’ action modifications, we suggest an interactional… read more
Intermodal synchrony as a form of maternal responsiveness: Association with language development The role of input on early first language morphosyntactic development: Le rôle de l’input sur le développement morphosyntaxique précoce en langue maternelle, Kern, Sophie, Frédérique Gayraud and Florence Chenu (eds.), pp. 117–136 | Article
2014 Research findings indicate that synchrony between events in two different modalities is a key concept in early social learning. Our longitudinal pilot study with 14 mother–child dyads is the first to support the idea that synchrony between action and language as a form of responsive behaviour in… read more
Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective, Nomikou, Iris, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Article
2013 Educating attention: Recruiting, maintaining, and framing eye contact in early natural mother–infant interactions Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective, Nomikou, Iris, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing (eds.), pp. 240–267 | Article
2013 In a longitudinal naturalistic study, we observed German mothers interacting with their infants when they were 3 and 6 months old. Pursuing the idea that infants’ attention is socialized in everyday interactions, we explored whether eye contact is reinforced selectively by behavioral modification… read more
Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 129–155 | Article
2012 To evaluate the influence of lexical development and task demands on maternal gestural behavior, we observed 17 German-speaking mothers and their children with typically language development (TD) and 9 mothers with their late talkers (LT) aged 22–25 months in task-oriented dialogues. Mothers… read more
Mindful tutors: Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robot Interaction Studies 12:1, pp. 134–161 | Article
2011 It has been proposed that the design of robots might benefit from interactions that are similar to caregiver–child interactions, which is tailored to children’s respective capacities to a high degree. However, so far little is known about how people adapt their tutoring behaviour to robots and… read more
11. Mothers’ talking about early object and action concepts during picturebook reading Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3, Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.), pp. 193–208 | Article
2011 Early picturebooks mostly contain pictures of static objects that are useful in introducing rules of book behavior (Kümmerling-Meibauer & Meibauer, 2005). Yet, they do not evolve narratives with a temporal or sequential structure. Our study was motivated by the approach suggested in Mandler (2000)… read more
Meaning in the objects Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 151–176 | Article
2011 In this paper, I am arguing that objects being present in the external situation ground the linguistic meaning. Furthermore, I will show that the nature of objects can change not only linguistic but also gestural behavior. Instead of simply excluding materialistic factors, I therefore suggest a… read more
Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 251–278 | Article
2010 To evaluate the influence of lexical development and task demands on maternal gestural behavior, we observed 17 German-speaking mothers and their children with typically language development (TD) and 9 mothers with their late talkers (LT) aged 22–25 months in task-oriented dialogues. Mothers… read more
Improving HRI design by applying Systemic Interaction Analysis (SInA) Robots in the Wild: Exploring human-robot interaction in naturalistic environments, Dautenhahn, Kerstin (ed.), pp. 298–323 | Article
2009 Social robots are designed to interact with humans. That is why they need interaction models that take social behaviors into account. These usually influence many of a robot’s abilities simultaneously. Hence, when designing robots that users will want to interact with, all components need to be… read more