Expressive Speech Characteristics in the Communication with Artificial Agents (2009)
This paper deals with emotional speech characteristics in human-computer- and human-robot interaction. The focus is on the users ’ involuntary expression of emotion in reaction to system...
Using Focus Maps to Ease Map Reading 35 (2008)
Markus Knauff, Christian Freksa, Steffen Werner, Bernhard Neb El, Er Scivos, ...
Spatial cognition r esearch is making rapid progress in understanding the acquisition, organization, utilization, and r evision of knowledge ab out spatial environments, b e it real or abstract,...
cooperation: Turn-taking in a new medium (2008)
Kerstin Fischer, Thora Tenbrink
Compared to more common media of communication such as telephone or e-mail, video conferences (VCs) provide further communicational resources for the interactants by allowing for visual cues that are...
Addressee-dependent Blending in Object (2008)
Localisation Tasks Kerstin, Kerstin Fischer
reference to an object of this group is achieved by referring to it as the left, middle, or right object, irrespective of whether they are right, middle or left from the participants. Thus, the right...
Video Conferencing in a Transregional Research (2008)
Kerstin Fischer, Thora Tenbrink
this paper, we address the problem of turn-taking in VCs. We will first present the framework in which our research is carried out in order to illustrate our particular perspective on the issue....
Discourse Particles, Turn-Taking, and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (2008)
this paper, the semantics-pragmatics interface will be investigated by studying the properties of discourse particles with respect to the exchange of the speaking role; that is, a possible dividing...
Anton Batliner, Richard Huber, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Noth, Jorg Spilker, Kerstin Fischer
Abstract. To detect emotional user behavior, particularly anger, can be very useful for successful automatic dialog processing. We present databases and prosodic classifiers implemented for the...
What are the Readings of a Lexical Item: Pragmatic Methods for Lexical Semantics (2007)
this paper is what the criteria are for defining the readings of a lexical item; a number of proposals have previously been made with respect to deciding what has to go into the lexical entry of a...
Keeping the Initiative: An Empirically-Motivated Approach to Predicting (2006)
Kerstin Fischer, John A. Bateman
In this paper, we address the problem of reducing the unpredictability of userinitiated dialogue contributions in humancomputer interaction without explicitly restricting the user's interactive...
Spatial Strategies in Human-Robot Communication (2002)
Thora Tenbrink, Kerstin Fischer, Reinhard Moratz
This paper deals with various kinds of mental representations available for linguistic instruction in spatial humanrobot interaction. After a survey of the literature on spatial representations in...
Spatial Knowledge Representation (2002)
Reinhard Moratz, Thora Tenbrink, John Bateman, Kerstin Fischer
Non-intuitive styles of interaction between humans and mobile robots still constitute a major barrier to the wider application and acceptance of mobile robot technology. More natural interaction can...
Spacial Strategies of Human-Robot Communication (2002)
Thora Tenbrink, Kerstin Fischer, Reinhard Moratz, Ki Fachbeitrge
This paper deals with various kinds of mental representations available for linguistic instruction in spatial human-robot interaction. After a survey of the literature on spatial representations in...
How much common ground do we need for speaking (2001)
How Much Common, Kerstin Fischer
this paper is to which types of common ground speakers attend in dialogical interactions. The procedure is to investigate a particular kind of interaction in which common ground is at stake, i.e. in...
Thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2001.
Cognitively adequate modelling of spatial reference in human-robotinteraction (2000)
Reinhard Moratz, Kerstin Fischer
The question addressed in this paper is which types of spatial reference human users employ in the interaction with a robot and how a cognitively adequat model of these strategies can be implemented....
Kerstin Fischer, Arbeitsbereich Naturlichsprachliche Systeme
Our everyday use of the term situation suggests that it is unproblematic to decide what constitutes a situation in which language happens. At the same time it seems to be important to account for...
Kerstin Fischer, Arbeitsbereich Natürlichsprachliche Systeme
Our everyday use of the term situation suggests that it is unproblematic to decide what constitutes a situation in which language happens. At the same time it seems to be important to account for...
What makes speakers angry in human-computer conversation (2000)
Kerstin Fischer, Anton Batliner
or that their attitude towards the system changes globally which may cause their linguistic behaviour to vary considerably. The current study addresses the question of what exactly makes speakers...
Annotating Emotional Language Data (1999)
Kerstin Fischer, Kerstin Fischer, Ab Nats
The phenomena addressed in this study are the linguistic characteristics of emotional utterances. The background of this research is constituted by the observation that at human-computer speech...
Annotating Emotional Language Data (1999)
Kerstin Fischer, Kerstin Fischer, Ab Nats
this paper, it will be described how emotional language dialogues are elicited and how they can be annotated for the selection as training material; that is, it will be determined which irritations...
Discourse Effects On The Prosodic Properties Of Repetitions In Human-Computer Interaction (1999)
Repetitions may occur in human-computer interaction for various reasons; in this paper the constraints on the use of repetitions and their prosodic realization in the communication with a (simulated)...
Repeats, Reformulations, and Emotional (1999)
Speech Evidence For, Kerstin Fischer
This paper will show which irritations can be found in reaction to system malfunction and how these can be addressed
Automatic Disambiguation of Discourse Particles (1998)
In spite of their important quantitative role, discourse particles have so far been ne-glected in automatic speech processing for two reasons: Firstly it is not clear what they may contribute to the...
Automatic Disambiguation of Discourse Particles (1998)
In spite of their important quantitative role, discourse particles have so far been neglected in automatic speech processing for two reasons: Firstly it is not clear what they may contribute to the...
The Many Functions of Discourse Particles: A Computational Model of Pragmatic Interpretation (1997)
Gabriele Scheler, Kerstin Fischer
We present a connectionist model for the interpretation of discourse particles in real dialogues that is based on neuronal principles of categorization (categorical perception, prototype formation,...
The Many Functions of Discourse Particles: A computational model of pragmatic interpretation (1997)
Gabriele Scheler, Kerstin Fischer
We present a connectionist model for the interpretation of discourse particles in real dialogues that is based on neuronal principles of categorization (categorical perception, prototype formation,...
Grunwald, Ulf, Guo, Wenbing, Fischer, Kerstin, Isayenkov, Stanislav, Ludwig-Müller, Jutta, Hause, Bettina, ...
A microarray carrying 5,648 probes of Medicago truncatula root-expressed genes was screened in order to identify those that are specifically regulated by the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus...