Katharina Rohlfing

List of John Benjamins publications for which Katharina Rohlfing plays a role.

Journal

ISSN 1568-1475 | E-ISSN 1569-9773

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
Boden, Ulrich J., Friederike Kern, Sofia Koutalidis, Olga Abramov, Anne Nemeth, Stefan Kopp and Katharina Rohlfing 2024 Four-year-olds’ visuospatial cognitive abilities and their relation to observer‑viewpoint gestures across three communicative tasksPragmatics & Cognition 31:1, pp. 49–96 | Article
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
Fisher, Josephine B., Katharina Rohlfing, Ed Donnellan, Angela Grimminger, Yan Gu and Gabriella Vigliocco 2024 Explain with , rather than explain to: How explainees shape their own learningInteraction Studies 25:2, pp. 245–256 | Article
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
Rohlfing, Katharina, Kerstin Nachtigäller, Anna Berner and Anouschka Foltz 2019 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
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
Nomikou, Iris, Malte Schilling, Vivien Heller and Katharina Rohlfing 2016 Language-at all times: Action and interaction as contexts for enriching representationsInteraction Studies 17:1, pp. 128–153 | Article
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
Pitsch, Karola, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Katharina Rohlfing, Jannik Fritsch and Britta Wrede 2014 Tutoring in adult-child interaction: On the loop of the tutor’s action modification and the recipient’s gazeInteraction Studies 15:1, pp. 55–98 | Article
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
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
Nomikou, Iris, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing 2013 Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspectiveAsymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective, Nomikou, Iris, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Article
Nomikou, Iris, Katharina Rohlfing and Joanna Szufnarowska 2013 Educating attention: Recruiting, maintaining, and framing eye contact in early natural mother–infant interactionsAsymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective, Nomikou, Iris, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing (eds.), pp. 240–267 | Article
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
Grimminger, Angela, Katharina Rohlfing and Prisca Stenneken 2012 Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language developmentGesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 129–155 | Article
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
Fischer, Kerstin, Kilian Foth, Katharina Rohlfing and Britta Wrede 2011 Mindful tutors: Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robotInteraction Studies 12:1, pp. 134–161 | Article
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
Nachtigäller, Kerstin and Katharina Rohlfing 2011 11. Mothers’ talking about early object and action concepts during picturebook readingEmergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3, Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.), pp. 193–208 | Article
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
Rohlfing, Katharina 2011 Meaning in the objectsExperimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 151–176 | Article
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
Grimminger, Angela, Katharina Rohlfing and Prisca Stenneken 2010 Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language developmentGesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 251–278 | Article
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
Lohse, Manja, Marc Hanheide, Karola Pitsch, Katharina Rohlfing and Gerhard Sagerer 2009 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
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