Mark Dingemanse

A user issues an if-prefaced pre-request (“if I said I want to provide you with [A … then B], could you make the B input into A input”) in a bid to probe the (claimed) ability of ChatGPT to carry out a task.

Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices.

A With interactive repair, another participant initiates repair, inviting a repair solution by the first; the repair initiation is a pivot, pointing both back and forward.

Networks can be an effective way to visualize relationships between ideophones, and offer users a dynamic way to interact with ideophone lexicons and become familiar with their structure.

A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction.

In Panel A, point clouds show how 239 ideophones from five languages (dots) are distributed in terms of guessability in two binary forced choice experiments (one in Collabra, the other in Language).

Panel A illustrates the notion of structure mapping.

Three examples of interactive repair sequences in British Sign Language: (A) visual-only repair initiator realized by a freeze-look (Interlocutor 2); (B) combined repair initiator realized standalone mouthing “what?”

Fine-grained openness judgements (1) can be turned into actionable metrics in several ways: they can be combined to form a cumulative openness score (2), discretized into categories like energy labels (3), or dichotomised into a binary measure (4).

The Grand Mosque of Djenné, Mali, during the 2023 annual replastering.