?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Looking+like+a+human%3A+How+conversation+analytic+work+on+gaze+direction+in+human+interaction+can+be+relevant+for+design+and+analysis+of+robotic+interaction.&rft.creator=Dickerson%2C+Paul&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Robotics&rft.description=A+crucial+aspect+of+the+development+of+language+in+children+has+been+concerned+with+pragmatics+-+a+field+which+explores+the+ways+in+which+interaction+is+successfully+accomplished.+One+aspect+of+this+is+concerned+with+the+sequential+implicativeness+of+our+actions+-+that+is+what+do+particular+behaviours+accomplish+given+the+specific+turn+by+turn+interactive+sequence+in+which+they+occur.+This+paper+seeks+to+consider+some+aspects+of+this+by+reference+to+conversation+analytic+work+on+gaze+in+adult+interaction.+In+this+way+the+paper+attempts+to+provide+a+brief+overview+of+some+of+the+ways+that+our+thinking+about+robot+-+human+interaction+can+be+deepened+by+an+appreciation+of+conversation+analytic+work.+In+particular+it+argues+that+the+empirical+basis+of+conversation+analysis+(henceforth+CA)+offers+a+wonderful+treasure-trove+of+understandings+about+how+humans+accomplish+social+interaction.+The+understanding+that+CA+provides+is+derived+from+careful+empirical+scrutiny+and+therefore+it+is+able+to+offer+a+perspective+on+interaction+that+is+sensitive+to+minute+detail+rather+than+crude+applications+of+global+concepts.+Thus+this+paper+provides+a+provisional+inspection+of+a+small+fraction+of+CA+literature+concerning+the+use+of+gaze+in+interaction+and+thinks+through+the+relevance+that+this+might+have+for+the+design+and+understanding+of+interacting+robots.+Whilst+CA+provides+a+complex+understanding+of+human+interaction%2C+predominantly+derived+from+the+everyday+talk+of+adults%2C+this+paper+argues+that+the+approach+can+provide+both+an+idealised+target+of+communication+competence+and+perhaps+more+important+a+means+of+understanding+instances+of+human-robot+interaction.+In+this+way+CA+may+usefully+supplement+other+approaches+to+communicative+competence+in+work+on+interacting+robots.&rft.publisher=Lund+University+Cognitive+Studies&rft.contributor=Prince%2C+Christopher+G.&rft.contributor=Demiris%2C+Yiannis&rft.contributor=Marom%2C+Yuval&rft.contributor=Kozima%2C+Hideki&rft.contributor=Balkenius%2C+Christian&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Conference+Poster&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2507%2F1%2FDickerson.pdf&rft.identifier=++Dickerson%2C+Paul++(2002)+Looking+like+a+human%3A+How+conversation+analytic+work+on+gaze+direction+in+human+interaction+can+be+relevant+for+design+and+analysis+of+robotic+interaction.++%5BConference+Poster%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2507%2F