@inbook {77,
	title = {Grounding a Sociable Robot{\textquoteright}s Movements in Multimodal, Situational Engagements},
	booktitle = {New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {267-281},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
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			<p class="p1">To deal with the question of what a sociable robot is, we describe how an educational robot is encountered by children, teachers and designers in a preschool. We consider the importance of the robot{\textquoteright}s body by focusing on how its movements are contingently embedded in interactional situations. We point out that the effects of agency that these movements generate are inseparable from their grounding in locally coordinated, multimodal actions and interactions.</p>
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	keywords = {Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages},
	issn = {978-3-319-10060-9, 978-3-319-10061-6},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-10061-6_18},
	author = {Ala{\v c}, M. and Movellan, J. and Malmir, M. and Nakano, Y. and Satoh, K. and Bekki, D.}
}
@conference {75,
	title = {Design and early evaluation of the RUBI-5 sociable robots},
	booktitle = {Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL), 2012 IEEE International Conference on},
	year = {2012},
	month = {11/2012},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {San Diego, CA},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-4964-2},
	author = {Johnson, D. and Malmir, M. and Forster, D. and Ala{\v c}, M. and Movellan, J.}
}
@article {74,
	title = {When a robot is social: Spatial arrangements and multimodal semiotic engagement in the practice of social robotics},
	journal = {Social Studies of Science},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2011},
	month = {12/2011},
	pages = {893-926},
	chapter = {893},
	abstract = {<p class="p1">Social roboticists design their robots to function as social agents in interaction with humans and other robots. Although we do not deny that the robot{\textquoteright}s design features are crucial for attaining this aim, we point to the relevance of spatial organization and coordination between the robot and the humans who interact with it. We recover these interactions through an observational study of a social robotics laboratory and examine them by applying a multimodal interactional analysis to two moments of robotics practice. We describe the vital role of roboticists and of the group of preverbal infants, who are involved in a robot{\textquoteright}s design activity, and we argue that the robot{\textquoteright}s social character is intrinsically related to the subtleties of human interactional moves in laboratories of social robotics. This human involvement in the robot{\textquoteright}s social agency is not simply controlled by individual will. Instead, the human{\textendash}machine couplings are demanded by the situational dynamics in which the robot is lodged.</p>
},
	keywords = {body, design, gesture, human{\textendash}robot interaction, laboratory, social agency, social robotics, spatial organization},
	issn = {0306-3127, 1460-3659},
	author = {Ala{\v c}, M. and Movellan, J. and Tanaka, F.}
}
@article {68,
	title = {Moving Android On Social Robots and Body-in-Interaction},
	journal = {Social Studies of Science},
	volume = {39},
	year = {2009},
	month = {08/2009},
	pages = {491-528},
	chapter = {491},
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			<td class="abstractNote" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 4px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Social robotics studies embodied technologies designed for social interaction. This paper examines the implied idea of embodiment using as data a sequence in which practitioners of social robotics are involved in designing a robot{\textquoteright}s movement. The moments of learning and work in the laboratory enact the social body as material, dynamic, and multiparty: the body-in-interaction. In describing subject{\textemdash}object reconfigurations, the paper explores how the well-known ideas of extending the body with instruments can be applied to a technology designed to function as our surrogate.</td>
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	keywords = {embodiment, gesture, human{\textemdash}technology extension, laboratory studies, multimodal semiotic interaction, social robotics},
	issn = {0306-3127, 1460-3659},
	author = {Ala{\v c}, M.}
}