Nils Frederik Tolksdorf

Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Germanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft > Germanistische und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Research Associate
Institut für Germanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Research Associate
nach Vereinbarung
33100 Paderborn
- Research projects
Merits
In this project, child-robot interaction is investigated from the perspectives of media pedagogy and psycholinguistics: How to design a child-oriented dialogue? Can preschoolers' language development benefit longitudinally from an interaction with a robot? What do kindergarten teachers expect from a child-robot interaction? The project addresses the need to introduce digital technology to children in order to foster equality in digital society.
- Research focus
Research Interests:
- Early language development, children's acquisition of words
- Language learning with social robots
- Social robotics
- Robots in early education
Nils F. Tolksdorf is a PhD fellow of the Digital Society research program, funded by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and works at Paderborn University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Katharina Rohlfing. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Linguistics from Paderborn University. His research focuses on how children can consolidate language learning in a long-term and robust way with a social robot.
Open list in Research Information System
2022
K. Rohlfing, N. Altvater-Mackensen, N. Caruana, R. van den Berghe, B. Bruno, N.F. Tolksdorf, A. Hanulíková, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2022), 9
N.F. Tolksdorf, D. Hönemann, F.E. Viertel, K. Rohlfing, in: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022, pp. 1069-1074
2021
N.F. Tolksdorf, C.E. Crawshaw, K.J. Rohlfing, Frontiers in Education (2021)
N.F. Tolksdorf, S. Siebert, I. Zorn, I. Horwath, K.J. Rohlfing, International Journal of Social Robotics (2021), pp. 129-140
N.F. Tolksdorf, F.E. Viertel, C.E. Crawshaw, K.J. Rohlfing, in: Interaction Design and Children, 2021
N.F. Tolksdorf, F.E. Viertel, K.J. Rohlfing, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2021)
2020
N.F. Tolksdorf, U.J. Mertens, in: International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy, Routledge, 2020, pp. 90-102
N.F. Tolksdorf, F. Viertel, K.J. Rohlfing, in: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020
N.F. Tolksdorf, K.J. Rohlfing, in: 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2020
N.F. Tolksdorf, S. Siebert, I. Zorn, I. Horwarth, K. Rohlfing, International Journal of Social Robotics (2020)
2019
N.F. Tolksdorf. Social robots–new opportunities for early language learning in the digital age? Ethical considerations and moving towards goal-oriented co-action. In: Workshop on the ethical impact of robot tutors in early education, Paderborn, 2019.
N.F. Tolksdorf. New opportunities for early education in the digital age? Examining the role of social robots. In: Digital Society – International Summer School 2019, Duisburg, 2019.
S. Siebert, N.F. Tolksdorf, K.J. Rohlfing, I. Zorn, The Journal of Communication and Media Studies (2019), pp. 21-35
N.F. Tolksdorf, H. Dirk, K.J. Rohlfing, F.E. Viertel. Do shy children behave differently than non-shy children in a child-robot interaction? An analysis of positive and negative expressions of shyness in kindergarten children. In: Atypical Interaction Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2019.
N.F. Tolksdorf, U.J. Mertens, K.J. Rohlfing. When learning words with robots, children’s answers are multimodal: a challenge for a dialogue design. In: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Orlando, USA, 2019.
N.F. Tolksdorf, K.J. Rohlfing. Reconceptualising early childhood literacy facing child-robot interaction. In: Reconceptualising Early Childhood Literacies: An International Conference, Manchester, UK, 2019.
S. Siebert, N.F. Tolksdorf, K. Rohlfing, I. Zorn, The Journal of Communication and Media Studies (2019), pp. 21-35
2018
N.F. Tolksdorf, S. Siebert. Raising Robotic Natives? Ethical aspects of learning with robots in kindergarten. In: Third International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, Berkeley, USA, 2018.
U.J. Mertens, K. Bergmann, N.F. Tolksdorf, K.J. Rohlfing. Can the reduction of an iconic gesture aid long-term learning? A pilot child-robot-study. In: Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture and Diversity, Cape Town, South Africa, 2018.
N.F. Tolksdorf, U.J. Mertens, K.J. Rohlfing. Multimodal response behavior of children during word learning with a robot. In: Symposium on Robots for Language Learning, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018.