---
_id: '17189'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Alignment is a phenomenon observed in human conversation: Dialog partners''
    behavior converges in many respects. Such alignment has been proposed to be automatic
    and the basis for communicating successfully. Recent research on human-computer
    dialog promotes a mediated communicative design account of alignment according
    to which the extent of alignment is influenced by interlocutors'' beliefs about
    each other. Our work aims at adding to these findings in two ways. (a) Our work
    investigates alignment of manual actions, instead of lexical choice. (b) Participants
    interact with the iCub humanoid robot, instead of an artificial computer dialog
    system. Our results confirm that alignment also takes place in the domain of actions.
    We were not able to replicate the results of the original study in general in
    this setting, but in accordance with its findings, participants with a high questionnaire
    score for emotional stability and participants who are familiar with robots align
    their actions more to a robot they believe to be basic than to one they believe
    to be advanced. Regarding alignment over the course of an interaction, the extent
    of alignment seems to remain constant, when participants believe the robot to
    be advanced, but it increases over time, when participants believe the robot to
    be a basic version.'
author:
- first_name: Anna-Lisa
  full_name: Vollmer, Anna-Lisa
  last_name: Vollmer
- first_name: Katharina
  full_name: Rohlfing, Katharina
  id: '50352'
  last_name: Rohlfing
- first_name: Britta
  full_name: Wrede, Britta
  last_name: Wrede
- first_name: Angelo
  full_name: Cangelosi, Angelo
  last_name: Cangelosi
citation:
  ama: Vollmer A-L, Rohlfing K, Wrede B, Cangelosi A. Alignment to the Actions of
    a Robot. <i>International Journal of Social Robotics</i>. 2015;7(2):241-252. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0">10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0</a>
  apa: Vollmer, A.-L., Rohlfing, K., Wrede, B., &#38; Cangelosi, A. (2015). Alignment
    to the Actions of a Robot. <i>International Journal of Social Robotics</i>, <i>7</i>(2),
    241–252. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0">https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Vollmer_Rohlfing_Wrede_Cangelosi_2015, title={Alignment to the
    Actions of a Robot}, volume={7}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0">10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0</a>},
    number={2}, journal={International Journal of Social Robotics}, publisher={Springer-Verlag},
    author={Vollmer, Anna-Lisa and Rohlfing, Katharina and Wrede, Britta and Cangelosi,
    Angelo}, year={2015}, pages={241–252} }'
  chicago: 'Vollmer, Anna-Lisa, Katharina Rohlfing, Britta Wrede, and Angelo Cangelosi.
    “Alignment to the Actions of a Robot.” <i>International Journal of Social Robotics</i>
    7, no. 2 (2015): 241–52. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0">https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0</a>.'
  ieee: 'A.-L. Vollmer, K. Rohlfing, B. Wrede, and A. Cangelosi, “Alignment to the
    Actions of a Robot,” <i>International Journal of Social Robotics</i>, vol. 7,
    no. 2, pp. 241–252, 2015, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0">10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0</a>.'
  mla: Vollmer, Anna-Lisa, et al. “Alignment to the Actions of a Robot.” <i>International
    Journal of Social Robotics</i>, vol. 7, no. 2, Springer-Verlag, 2015, pp. 241–52,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0">10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0</a>.
  short: A.-L. Vollmer, K. Rohlfing, B. Wrede, A. Cangelosi, International Journal
    of Social Robotics 7 (2015) 241–252.
date_created: 2020-06-24T13:01:06Z
date_updated: 2023-02-01T16:07:40Z
department:
- _id: '749'
doi: 10.1007/s12369-014-0252-0
intvolume: '         7'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- learning
- Human-robot interaction
- Alignment
- Robot social
- Action understanding
language:
- iso: eng
page: 241-252
publication: International Journal of Social Robotics
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1875-4791
publisher: Springer-Verlag
status: public
title: Alignment to the Actions of a Robot
type: journal_article
user_id: '14931'
volume: 7
year: '2015'
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