@article{17233, abstract = {{It has been proposed that the design of robots might benefit from interactions that are similar to caregiver–child interactions, which is tailored to children’s respective capacities to a high degree. However, so far little is known about how people adapt their tutoring behaviour to robots and whether robots can evoke input that is similar to child-directed interaction. The paper presents detailed analyses of speakers’ linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour, such as action demonstration, in two comparable situations: In one experiment, parents described and explained to their nonverbal infants the use of certain everyday objects; in the other experiment, participants tutored a simulated robot on the same objects. The results, which show considerable differences between the two situations on almost all measures, are discussed in the light of the computer-as-social-actor paradigm and the register hypothesis.}}, author = {{Fischer, Kerstin and Foth, Kilian and Rohlfing, Katharina and Wrede, Britta}}, issn = {{1572-0381}}, journal = {{Interaction Studies}}, keywords = {{human–robot interaction (HRI), social communication, register theory, motionese, robotese, child-directed speech (CDS), motherese, mindless transfer, computers-as-social-actors}}, number = {{1}}, pages = {{134--161}}, publisher = {{John Benjamins Publishing Company}}, title = {{{Mindful tutors: Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robot}}}, doi = {{10.1075/is.12.1.06fis}}, volume = {{12}}, year = {{2011}}, }