In interpersonal interaction, the terms synchrony or alignment refer to the way in which communication channels like speech or body movement become intertwined over time, both across interlocutors and within a single individual. A recent trend in alignment research has targeted multimodal alignment, exploring how various communication channels affect one another over time (e.g., Louwerse et al....

Previous research has shown that interlocutors in a dialogue align their utterances at several levels of representation. This paper reports two experiments that use a confederate-priming paradigm to examine whether interlocutors also align their spatial representations during dialogue. Experiment 1 showed a significant reference frame priming effect: Speakers tended to use the same reference fr...

Since its debut in the field of education nearly three decades ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been considered as a powerful tool to facilitate new paradigms for instructional design and innovative educational practice form intelligent tutoring systems, chatbots, teaching robots adaptive learning systems among others. Recent technological advances adjacent areas natural language processin...

When interpreting takes place in a videoconference setting, the intrinsic technological challenges and the very remoteness of the interpreters’ location compound the complexity of the task. Existing research on remote interpreting and the problems it entails focusses on remote conference interpreting, in which the interpreters are physically separated from the conference site while the primary ...

Communication is characterized by speakers’ dynamic adaptations and coordination of both linguistic and non-verbal behaviors. Understanding this phenomenon of alignment and its underlying mechanisms and processes in both human–human and human–computer interactions is of particular importance when building artificial interlocutors. In this paper, we contribute to further explorations of the stil...

Human and nonhuman primate communication differs in various ways. In particular, humans base communicative efforts on mutual knowledge and conventions shared between interlocutors. In this study, we experimentally tested whether bonobos (Pan paniscus), a close relative to humans, are able to take into account the familiarity, i.e. the shared interaction history, when communicating with a human ...

Stochastic turn-taking models provide stationary estimates of the probability of a conversant’s incipient speech activity, given their own and their interlocutors’ recent speech activity. Existing research suggests that such models may be conversantspecific, and even conversant-discriminative. The present work establishes this explicitly. It is shown that: (1) the conditioning context can be re...

In this paper, we describe an experiment we conducted to determine the user’s level of engagement in a multi-party scenario consisting of human and synthetic interlocutors. In particular, we were interested in the question of whether humans accept a synthetic agent as a genuine conversational partner that is worthy of being attended to in the same way as the human interlocutors. We concentrated...