Together with Dr. Franziska Viertel and Prof. Dr. Katharina Rohlfing, we investigated how temperamental shyness in children might influence their turn timing in
Our paper “Preschoolers’ Interactions with Social Robots: Investigating the Potential for Eliciting Metatalk and Critical Technological Thinking” was accepted as a late-breaking
As part of the cross-cultural project CULSHY (Cross-cultural studies on shyness: Experimental studies on gesture production of school-aged children and their
I am pleased to announce that I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis “This is autumn red! Learning morphologically complex words with
I had the honor of participating in an invited symposium at the 20th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research
For a half-hour radio report, I was interviewed together with Franziska Viertel about the research on the widespread temperamental characteristic of shyness
Our paper ‘Dialogical roles of social robots for supporting children’s learning of language and literacy—a review and analysis of innovative
Together with Franziska Viertel, Matt Hilton, Kristie Poole, and Sarah Kucker I organized a Symposium at this year’s CogSci 2022! In this endeavor, we have attempted
Our paper ‘Who is that?! Does Changing the Robot as a Learning Companion Impact Preschoolers’Language Learning?’ was accepted as a late-breaking report at
I gave a flash talk at the event that focused on the potential of social robots in early childhood education.