Motivation und Interaktion im Sport. Entwicklung eines empirisch basierten Interaktionsmodells für die Mensch-Roboter Interaktion.

Süssenbach L. Motivation und Interaktion im Sport. Entwicklung eines empirisch basierten Interaktionsmodells für die Mensch-Roboter Interaktion. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2016

Interactional Coordination and Alignment: Gestures in Indoor Cycling Courses

Süssenbach L, Pitsch K. Interactional Coordination and Alignment: Gestures in Indoor Cycling Courses. In: Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). Bielefeld; 2011

Long-Term Feedback Mechanisms for Robotic Assisted Indoor Cycling Training

Schneider S, Süssenbach L, Berger I, Kummert F. Long-Term Feedback Mechanisms for Robotic Assisted Indoor Cycling Training. In: Proceedings International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. New York, NY: ACM; 2015: 157-164

"Can you answer questions, Flobi?": Interactionally defining a robot’s competence as a fitness instructor

Süssenbach L, Pitsch K, Berger I, Riether N, Kummert F. "Can you answer questions, Flobi?": Interactionally defining a robot’s competence as a fitness instructor. In: Proceedings of the 21th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2012). 2012.Users draw on four sources to judge a robot’s competence: (1) the robot’s voice, (2) physical appearance of and (3) the interaction experience with the robot but also (4) the relationship between the robot’s physical appearance and its conduct. Furthermore, most approaches in social robotics have an outcome-oriented focus and thus use questionnaires to measure a global evaluation of the robot after interaction took place. The present research takes a process-oriented approach to explore the factors relevant in the formation of users’ attitudes toward the robot. To do so, an ethnographic approach (Conversation Analysis) was employed to analyze the micro-coordination between user and robot. We report initial findings from a study in which a robot took the role of a fitness instructor. Our results emphasize that the participant judges step-by-step the robot’s capabilities and differentiates its competence on two levels regarding to the robot’s role: a robot as a (1) social/interactional co-participant and as a (2) fitness instructor

Social Robots for Long-Term Space Missions

Berger I, Kipp A, Lütkebohle I, et al. Social Robots for Long-Term Space Missions. In: 63rd International Astronautical Congress. Naples, Italy: International Astronautical Federation; 2012

A robot as fitness companion: towards an interactive action-based motivation model

Süssenbach L, Riether N, Schneider S, et al. A robot as fitness companion: towards an interactive action-based motivation model. In: RO-MAN: the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE; 2014: 286-293

Interaction and Motivation in Fitness Communication

Süssenbach L. Interaction and Motivation in Fitness Communication

The prosody of motivation. First results from an indoor cycling scenario

Skutella LV, Süssenbach L, Pitsch K, Wagner P. The prosody of motivation. First results from an indoor cycling scenario. In: Hoffmann R, ed. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2014. Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation. Vol 71. TUD Press; 2014: 209-215.Intuitively, prosody seems to play a key role in what constitutes a „motivational speaking style“. In this study, the phenomenon of motivational prosody is studied within dyadic interactions between an instructor and a trainee during a session of an indoor cycling class. This scenario is characterized by a strong usage of multimodal resources, a predominance of short coordinative instructions and evaluative comments expressed both verbally and non-verbally [1, 2]. These studies indicated that prosody fulfills an important function in the instructor’s motivational function, but its form has not been examined thoroughly. In our exploratory empirical study on motivational contexts, we investigated to what degree instructors report on their usage of prosody as motivational means and examined their prosodic features in indoor cycling situations. As accompanying music is likely to serve as external anchor for rhythmic-prosodic structuring, only training sessions without music were investigated. Both the interviews and the prosodic analyses revealed several characteristics: (i) A high frequency of prominent, usually accented words, fulfills a coordinative and informative function, (ii) Pitch and verbal rhythm mirrors posture and movement tempo, indicating an iconic relationship between pitch and movement. (iii) Rising boundary tones indicate the non-terminality of an exercise, falling ones the opposite. (iv) Rhythmic structure and tempo is synchronized with the instructor’s cycling movements during, but not before and after the individual exercises. (v) Vocal effort and articulatory precision are high during explanation, but are reduced during the subsequent exercises. While having been able to filter out characteristic prosodic patterns, their effectiveness in creating and maintaining motivation remains to be shown

Attitude of German Museum Visitors towards an Interactive Art Guide Robot

Pitsch K, Wrede S, Seele J-C, Süssenbach L. Attitude of German Museum Visitors towards an Interactive Art Guide Robot. In: 6th HRI International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011). Lausanne, Switzerland: ACM; 2011: 227-228.As a testbed for real-world experimentation on HRI and dynamic interaction models, this paper presents an autonomous robot system acting as guide in a German arts museum. The visitors’ evaluation of this system is analyzed using a questionnaire and reveals issues for subsequent analysis of the real-time interaction

"The first five seconds": Contingent stepwise entry into an interaction as a means to secure sustained engagement

Pitsch K, Kuzuoka H, Suzuki Y, Süssenbach L, Luff P, Heath C. "The first five seconds": Contingent stepwise entry into an interaction as a means to secure sustained engagement. In: IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 2009: 985-991.If robot systems are being deployed in real world settings with untrained users who happen to accidentally pass by or could leave at any moment in time, then this places specific demands on the robot system: it needs to secure and maintain the user’s engagement. In this, a common and critical problem consists of entering into a ‘focused encounter’. It requires each interactional partner to closely react upon the other’s actions on a very fine-grained level engaging in a stepwise and dynamic process of mutual adjustments. We report initial findings from a study in which we have developed a preliminary, simple solution to this problem inspired by work from Conversation Analysis 7. Using this as an instrument to explore the impact of a 'contingent'(CE) vs. 'non-contingent entry'(NCE), we find that users who enter into the interaction in a dynamic and contingent manner show a significantly different way of interacting with the robot than the NCE group