N. F. Tolksdorf, E. Wildt, and K. Rohlfing, “Preschoolers’ Interactions with Social Robots: Investigating the Potential for Eliciting Metatalk and Critical Technological Thinking,”10.1145/3610978.3640654__in Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024, pp. 1053–1057, doi:10.1145/3610978.3640654 .

K. Rohlfing et al., “Social/dialogical roles of social robots in supporting children’s learning of language and literacy—A review and analysis of innovative roles,”10.3389/frobt.2022.971749__Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 9, 2022, doi:10.3389/frobt.2022.971749 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, D. Hönemann, F. E. Viertel, and K. Rohlfing, “Who is that?!  Does  Changing  the  Robot  as  a Learning  Companion  Impact  Preschoolers’Language Learning?,”10.5555/3523760.3523937__in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan, 2022, pp. 1069–1074, doi:10.5555/3523760.3523937 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, C. E. Crawshaw, and K. J. Rohlfing, “Comparing the Effects of a Different Social Partner (Social Robot vs. Human) on Children’s Social Referencing in Interaction,”10.3389/feduc.2020.569615__Frontiers in Education, 2021, doi:10.3389/feduc.2020.569615 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, F. E. Viertel, C. E. Crawshaw, and K. J. Rohlfing, “Do Shy Children Keep more Distance from a Social Robot? Exploring Shy Children’s Proxemics with a Social Robot or a Human,”10.1145/3459990.3465181__2021, doi:10.1145/3459990.3465181 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, F. E. Viertel, and K. J. Rohlfing, “Do Shy Preschoolers Interact Differently When Learning Language With a Social Robot? An Analysis of Interactional Behavior and Word Learning,”10.3389/frobt.2021.676123__Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021, doi:10.3389/frobt.2021.676123 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, S. Siebert, I. Zorn, I. Horwath, and K. J. Rohlfing, “Ethical Considerations of Applying Robots in Kindergarten Settings: Towards an Approach from a Macroperspective,”10.1007/s12369-020-00622-3__International Journal of Social Robotics, pp. 129–140, 2021, doi:10.1007/s12369-020-00622-3 .

N. F. Tolksdorf and U. J. Mertens, “Beyond words: Children’s multimodal responses during word learning with a social robot,” in International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy, K. J. Rohlfing and C. Müller-Brauers, Eds. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 90–102.

N. F. Tolksdorf, F. Viertel, and K. J. Rohlfing, “Do Shy Children Behave Differently than Non-shy Children in a Long-term Child-robot Interaction?,”10.1145/3371382.3378367__2020, doi:10.1145/3371382.3378367 .

N. F. Tolksdorf and K. J. Rohlfing, “Parents’ Views on Using Social Robots for Language Learning,”10.1109/ro-man47096.2020.9223540__2020, doi:10.1109/ro-man47096.2020.9223540 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, S. Siebert, I. Zorn, I. Horwarth, and K. Rohlfing, “Ethical considerations of applying robots in kindergarten settings: Towards an approach from a macroperspective.,”10.1007/s12369-020-00622-3__International Journal of Social Robotics, 2020, doi:10.1007/s12369-020-00622-3 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, “Social robots–new opportunities for early language learning in the digital age? Ethical considerations and moving towards goal-oriented co-action,” presented at the Workshop on the ethical impact of robot tutors in early education, Paderborn, 2019.

N. F. Tolksdorf, “New opportunities for early education in the digital age? Examining the role of social robots,” presented at the Digital Society – International Summer School 2019, Duisburg, 2019.

S. Siebert, N. F. Tolksdorf, K. J. Rohlfing, and I. Zorn, “Raising Robotic Natives?: Persuasive Potentials of Social Robots in Early Education,”10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v04i04/21-35__The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, pp. 21–35, 2019, doi:10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v04i04/21-35 .

N. F. Tolksdorf, H. Dirk, K. J. Rohlfing, and F. E. Viertel, “Do shy children behave differently than non-shy children in a child-robot interaction? An analysis of positive and negative expressions of shyness in kindergarten children,” presented at the Atypical Interaction Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2019.

N. F. Tolksdorf, U. J. Mertens, and K. J. Rohlfing, “When learning words with robots, children’s answers are multimodal: a challenge for a dialogue design,” presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Orlando, USA, 2019.

N. F. Tolksdorf and K. J. Rohlfing, “Reconceptualising early childhood literacy facing child-robot interaction,” presented at the Reconceptualising Early Childhood Literacies: An International Conference, Manchester, UK, 2019.

S. Siebert, N. F. Tolksdorf, K. Rohlfing, and I. Zorn, “Raising Robotic Natives?: Persuasive Potentials of Social Robots in Early Education,”10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v04i04/21-35__The Journal of Communication and Media Studies , pp. 21–35, 2019, doi:10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v04i04/21-35 .

N. F. Tolksdorf and S. Siebert, “Raising Robotic Natives? Ethical aspects of learning with robots in kindergarten,” presented at the Third International Conference on Communication &; Media Studies, Berkeley, USA, 2018.

U. J. Mertens, K. Bergmann, N. F. Tolksdorf, and K. J. Rohlfing, “Can the reduction of an iconic gesture aid long-term learning? A pilot child-robot-study,” presented at the Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture and Diversity, Cape Town, South Africa, 2018.