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Abstract: In this talk I will argue that human interaction cannot be studied properly using the standard experimental methods that have been successful in other areas of the cognitive sciences. Of the many problems with these methods, I will focus on two important ones: (a) the trade-off between experimental control and ecological validity, and (b) profound problems regarding the quantification of interactive behavior.
Bio: J.P. de Ruiter is a cognitive scientist and psycholinguist working on the cognitive foundations of human communication. After getting his PhD at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, De Ruiter worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Cologne, and subsequently as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, where he coordinated a project on multimodal interaction. Since 2009, he has been a Professor of Psycholinguistics at Bielefeld University. He has published on human gesture, the evolution of language, conversational turn-taking, multimodality, non-verbal communication and intention recognition and has also been involved in several projects in social robotics. Per June 2016 he has accepted a position as Bridge Professor in the Cognitive Sciences at Tufts University.
- Speaker
- Jan de Ruiter
- Hosted by
- Kees van Deemter
- Venue
- Meston 311