My publications

Journal papers

A.-L. Vollmer R. Read D. Trippas T. Belpaeme Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity. Science Robotics 2018

A.-L.Vollmer N. Hemion A User Study on Robot Skill Learning Without a Cost Function: Optimization of Dynamic Movement Primitives via Naive User Feedback. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018

A.-L.Vollmer L. Schillingmann On Studying Human Teaching Behavior with Robots: a Review. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2017

A.-L.Vollmer B. Wrede K. Rohlfing P.-Y. Oudeyer Pragmatic frames for teaching and learning in human–robot interaction: Review and challenges. Frontiers in Neurorobotics 2016

K. Rohlfing B. Wrede A.-L.Vollmer P.-Y. Oudeyer An alternative to mapping a word onto a concept in language acquisition: pragmatic frames. Frontiers in Psychology 2016

A.-L. Vollmer K. Rohlfing B. Wrede A. Cangelosi Alignment to the Actions of a Robot. Social Robotics 2014

A.-L. Vollmer M. Mühlig J. Steil K. Pitsch J. Fritsch K. Rohlfing B. Wrede Robots Show Us How to Teach Them: Feedback from Robots Shapes Tutoring Behavior during Action Learning. PloS ONE 2014

J. Lember H. Matzinger A.-L. Vollmer Optimal alignments of longest common subsequences and their path properties. Bernoulli 2014

K. Pitsch A.-L. Vollmer J. Fritsch K. Rohlfing B. Wrede Tutoring in Adult-Child-Interaction: On the Loop of Action Modification and the Recipient's Gaze. Interaction Studies 2014

K. Pitsch A.-L. Vollmer M. Mühlig Robot feedback shapes the tutor's presentation. How a robot's online gaze strategies lead to micro-adaptation of the human's conduct. Special Issue of Interaction Studies on Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction, A micro-analytic perspective 2013

Conference papers

A.-L. Vollmer J. Grizou M. Lopes K. Rohlfing and P.-Y. Oudeyer Studying the Co-Construction of Interaction Protocols in Collaborative Tasks with Humans. Proc. of the 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics Genoa Italy 2014

P. Baxter J. Kennedy A.-L. Vollmer J. de Greeff T. Belpaeme Tracking gaze over time in HRI as a proxy for engagement and attribution of social agency. Proc. of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Bielefeld Germany 2014

A.-L. Vollmer M. Mühlig K. Rohlfing B. Wrede A. Cangelosi Demonstrating actions to a robot: How naïve users adapt to a robot’s replication of goal and manner-oriented actions. Proc. of the 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Amsterdam Netherlands 2013

A.-L. Vollmer B. Wrede K. Rohlfing A. Cangelosi Do Beliefs about a Robot's Capabilities Influence Alignment to its Actions? Proc. of the 3rd Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics Osaka Japan 2013

A.-L. Vollmer K. Pitsch K. Lohan J. Fritsch K. Rohlfing B. Wrede Developing Feedback: How Children of Different Age Contribute to a Tutoring Interaction with Adults. Proc. of 9th International Conference on Development and Learning Ann Arbour Michigan USA 2010

K. Lohan A.-L. Vollmer J. Fritsch K. Rohlfing B. Wrede Which ostensive stimuli can be used for a robot to detect and maintain tutoring situations? Proc. International Workshop on Social Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction Amsterdam The Netherlands 2009

K. Pitsch A.-L. Vollmer J. Fritsch B. Wrede K. Rohlfing G. Sagerer On the loop of action modification and the recipient's gaze in adult-child-interaction. Proc. of Gesture and Speech in Interaction Poznan Poland 2009

A.-L. Vollmer K. Lohan K. Fischer Y. Nagai K. Pitsch J. Fritsch K. Rohlfing B. Wrede People Modify Their Tutoring Behavior in Robot-Directed Interaction for Action Learning Proc. of 8th International Conference on Development and Learning Shanghai China 2009