SubjectsInteraction Studies
Book series
ISSN 1879-873X
Journal
Interaction Studies
Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Angelo Cangelosi
ISSN 1572-0373 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0381
Group Dynamics in Human–Robot Interaction
Edited by Alessandra Sciutti, Dario Pasquali, Giulia Belgiovine and Linda Lastrico
Special issue of Interaction Studies 26:3 (2025) v, 119 pp.
Mobile Eye Tracking: New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction
Edited by Elisabeth Zima and Anja Stukenbrock
Situated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics, this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction, with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication. Readers will find a comprehensive,… read more
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human-AI Team Trust
Edited by Nicolo' Brandizzi, Morgan Elizabeth Bailey, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myke C. Cohen, Francesco Frattolillo and Alan Richard Wagner
Special issue of Interaction Studies 26:2 (2025) vi, 235 pp.
Beyond Disfluency: The interplay of speech, gesture, and interaction
Loulou Kosmala
This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency, evaluating fluency across three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English, the present research goes beyond… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 11] 2024. xii, 264 pp.
Perspectives on Pantomime
Edited by Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
Pantomime is a unique form of communication, which we improvise “on the fly” to transmit information when unable to use language, for example during intercultural contacts or when the use of language is blocked or constrained, as in the case of some medical conditions or the game of charades.… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] 2024. v, 244 pp.
Animal-Computer Interfaces: Novel Approaches for Studying Animal Behavior, Cognition and Communication
Edited by Irene M. Pepperberg
Special issue of Interaction Studies 24:2 (2023) v, 142 pp.
Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots
Edited by Mohamed Chetouani, Elodie F. Briefer, Angela Dassow, Ricard Marxer, Roger K. Moore, Nicolas Obin and Dan Stowell
Special issue of Interaction Studies 24:1 (2023) v, 192 pp.
Child-Robot Interaction: Design, Evaluation, and Novel Solutions
Edited by Marta Couto, Shruti Chandra, Elmira Yadollahi and Vicky Charisi
Special issue of Interaction Studies 23:2 (2022) v, 204 pp.
Socially Acceptable Robot Behavior: Approaches for Learning, Adaptation and Evaluation
Edited by Oliver Roesler, Elahe Bagheri, Amir Aly, Silvia Rossi and Rachid Alami
Special issue of Interaction Studies 23:3 (2022) v, 198 pp.
What Influences Influence? How the Communicative Situation Influences Persuasion
Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Jaap Ham
Special issue of Interaction Studies 22:3 (2021) v, 225 pp.
Coherence
T. Givón
Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint, coherence makes it possible for the parts to work together as a whole. As an external constraint,… read more[Not in series, 230] 2020. xi, 293 pp.
Envisioning Social Robotics: Current challenges and new interdisciplinary methodologies
Edited by Glenda Hannibal and Astrid Weiss
Special issue of Interaction Studies 21:1 (2020) v, 185 pp.
Errors and Interaction: A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that often lead to human errors. This interdisciplinary focus emphasises… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 309] 2020. xii, 246 pp.
Human Robot Collaborative Intelligence: Theory and applications
Edited by Chenguang Yang, Xiaofeng Liu, Junpei Zhong and Angelo Cangelosi
Special issue of Interaction Studies 20:1 (2019) vi, 204 pp.
Social Cues in Robot Interaction, Trust and Acceptance
Edited by Alessandra Rossi, Kheng Lee Koay, Silvia Moros, Patrick Holthaus and Marcus Scheunemann
Special issue of Interaction Studies 20:3 (2019) v, 170 pp.
Eye-tracking in Interaction: Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue
Edited by Geert Brône and Bert Oben
This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction, including human-human and human-computer interaction. Approaching the phenomenon from different disciplinary and methodological angles, the chapters in the volume are united… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 10] 2018. vi, 329 pp.
How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
Special issue of Interaction Studies 19:1/2 (2018) vii, 387 pp.
Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language
Edited by Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev
Special issue of Interaction Studies 18:3 (2017) v, 173 pp.
Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion: Intercorporeality, interkinesthesia, and enaction in sports
Edited by Christian Meyer and Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt
This volume presents a new perspective on socially coordinated embodied activity. It brings together scholars from linguistics, interactional sociology, neuropsychology and brain research. It assembles empirical studies of the interaction in sports that draw on recent developments in… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 8] 2017. xv, 361 pp.
Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Federica Amici and Lucas M. Bietti
Special issue of Interaction Studies 16:3 (2015) xii, 220 pp.
Gaze in Human-Robot Communication
Edited by Frank Broz, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu and Yukiko Nakano
Gaze in Human-Robot Communication is a volume collecting recent research studying gaze behaviour in human-robot interaction (HRI). The selected articles draw inspiration from related research into gaze in human-human interaction in fields ranging from ethnography to neuroscience. The major themes… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 81] 2015. xv, 162 pp.
Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity
Edited by Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa
Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature… read more[Not in series, 186] 2014. vii, 393 pp.
Mental Model Ascription by Intelligent Agents
Edited by Marjorie McShane
Special issue of Interaction Studies 15:3 (2014) xi, 120 pp.
Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking
Edited by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile
Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called ‘multitasking’ – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking… read more[Not in series, 187] 2014. vii, 289 pp.
Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective
Edited by Iris Nomikou, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing
Special issue of Interaction Studies 14:2 (2013) xii, 178 pp.
Communication in Humans and Other Animals
Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 4] 2013. xi, 242 pp.
Gaze in human-robot communication
Guest-edited by Frank Broz, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu and Yukiko Nakano
Special issue of Interaction Studies 14:3 (2013) xv, 179 pp.
Hand Preference and Hand Ability: Evidence from studies in Haptic Cognition
Miriam Ittyerah
This volume adds new dimension and organization to the literature of touch and the hand, covering a diversity of topics surrounding the perception and cognition of touch in relation to the hand. No animal species compare to humans with regard to the haptic (or touch) sense, so unlike visual or… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 5] 2013. x, 248 pp.
Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness
Edited by Fabio Paglieri
Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] 2012. xix, 403 pp.
Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication
Edited by Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod
In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned "a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life". About a century later, a science has emerged that is very much in the spirit of that envisioned by de Saussure. Researchers who are developing this science, which has… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 45] 2012. v, 161 pp.
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Edited by Luc Steels
The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 3] 2012. xii, 306 pp.
Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective
Edited by Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi and Stephen J. Cowley
Special issue of Interaction Studies 13:1 (2012) xvi, 145 pp.
Avian Cognition and Social Interaction
Edited by Irene M. Pepperberg
Special issue of Interaction Studies 12:2 (2011) v, 177 pp.
New Frontiers in Human–Robot Interaction
Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Joe Saunders
Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) considers how people can interact with robots in order to enable robots to best interact with people. HRI presents many challenges with solutions requiring a unique combination of skills from many fields, including computer science, artificial intelligence, social… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 2] 2011. vi, 332 pp.
Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
Edited by Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair
After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 1] 2011. vi, 239 pp.