Serdecznie zapraszamy na wykład gościnny prof. Kathariny J. Rohlfing pt. Children’s language and why it is a huge challenge for social robots—considerations on context, multimodality, and individual differences. Czwartek, 19 marca godz. 11.30, sala C3
Imagine you are a robot. You are programmed to interact with a preschool child; however, there is no “average child”. Instead, the range of individual differences in how children use language and their gestures is huge. In my presentation, I will ask the question of what adaptive capabilities a robot needs to be ready for interaction with children? These capabilities must account for language acquisition in context, and I will unravel the difficult term of “context” for social interaction by proposing four types that system developers need to consider. I will exemplify one type of context with a group of children that differs with respect to their social and interactive behavior because of their temperament: shy children.
Katharina J. Rohlfing received the Master’s degree in linguistics, philosophy and media studies from the University of Paderborn in 1997. She received the Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the Bielefeld University in 2002. In 2006, with her interdisciplinary project on the Symbiosis of Language and Action, she became a Dilthey Fellow (VolkswagenStiftung). Since 2015, she is full professor of psycholingustics at the Paderborn University investigating language acquisition and multimodal social interaction, especially the process of scaffolding the interaction partner, and how robotic partners can achieve it. Being intrigued by different demands that communicative tasks imply, she currently focusses on the process of explaining.
