@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}},
}