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2025

  • Giannitzi, E., Maraev, V., Lagerstedt, E. & Howes, C (2025). Laughter in sight: How gaze and laughter affect perceptions of a social robot. In Human-Computer Interaction. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15769. Cham : Springer. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]
  • Howes, C. (2025). (Mis)managing the illusion of communication. Invited talk for "Science and Improv". [More] [Bibtex]

2024

  • Amido, S., Maraev, V. & Howes, C (2024). "No, you listen!" A pilot experiment into escalation devices in confrontational conversation. In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstract. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]
  • Breitholtz, E. & Howes, C. (2024). Children's strategies for developing resources in interaction.. [More] [Bibtex]
  • Breitholtz, E. & Howes, C (2024). Behaving according to protocol: How communicative projects are carried out differently in different settings. In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]
  • Ek, A., Noble, B., Chatzikyriakidis, S., Cooper, R., Dobnik, S., Gregoromichelaki, E. et al (2024). I hea- umm think that's what they say: A Dataset of Inferences from Natural Language Dialogues. In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]
  • Han Qiu, A., Vanzan, V., Soupiana, C. & Howes, C (2024). Disfluencies in conversation: a comparison of utterances with and without metaphors. In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]
  • Howes, C., Breitholtz, E. & Maraev, V. (2024). Only joking: Exploiting mismatches in topoi.. [More] [Bibtex]
  • Howes, C., Lagerstedt, E., Pagmar, D., Breitholtz, E. & Prendergast, C (2024). “Ice cream is super yummy” How children and ChatGPT respond to why and how questions. In Proceedings of the 2024 CLASP conference on multimodality and interaction in language learning. [More] [Bibtex]
  • Howes, C. (2024). Managed mismatches: Exploiting interactive Reasoning mechanisms in dialogue.. [More] [Bibtex]
  • Howes, C (2024). Divergence and Convergence in dialogue: The dynamic management of mismatches. In SLING. [More] [Bibtex]
  • Lagerstedt, E. & Howes, C (2024). I robot, you Jane? Ethics in the age of social robots. In Unfolding Ethics in Research and Society: Beyond Ethical Principles and Guidelines; WASP-HS Workshop in conjunction with the conference AI for Humanity and Society. [More] [Bibtex]
  • Somashekarappa, V. & Howes, C (2024). Influence of Robot-Gaze Aversion on Human-Behavioral Dynamics and Perceptual Cognition. In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstract. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]
  • Vanzan, V., Han Qiu, A., Ayub Khan, F., Soupiana, C. & Howes, C (2024). Emoji-Text Mismatches: Stirring the Pot of Online Conversations. In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstract. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]

2023

  • Breitholtz, E., Howes, C. & Cooper, R. (2023). All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics, 217, 172-184. [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]
  • Howes, C., Breitholtz, E. & Maraev, V (2023). Getting beyond a joke: Accommodation and mismatches in humour. In The Semantics of Hidden Meanings: Workshop at the fourteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (TbILLC 2023). [More] [Digital version] [Bibtex]