Christian Licoppe
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About
Christian Licoppe is a leading scholar in the sociology of interaction and human-robot communication, whose work bridges ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. His research focuses on how people make sense of and coordinate with robots in real-time social encounters, particularly in public and experimental settings. Licoppe’s major contributions include uncovering the subtle interactional work involved in establishing a robot as a competent social agent—from pre-beginnings and greetings to the delicate management of closing sequences. He has shown how bystanders and primary speakers collaboratively “play the robot’s advocate,” describing its conduct to sustain its participation. His studies on recipient design reveal how humans adapt their talk and actions to a robot’s perceived capabilities, even in first encounters. With over 70 citations across his most-cited works, Licoppe’s impact is evident in his influence on conversational robotics and human-robot interaction design. Notable achievements include his work on interactional symbiosis in quantified-self experiments and his multimodal analyses of disengagement, which challenge assumptions about robot autonomy. His research offers essential insights for designing robots that can participate in the nuanced, sequential order of human social life.
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- 6Why (pre)closing matters. The case of human-robot interaction3 citations · 2019