{"pk":26969,"title":"Quantitative Models of Human-Human Conversational Grounding Processes","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Natural language dialogue between multiple participants re-quires conversational grounding, a process whereby interlocu-tors achieve a shared understanding. However, the mecha-nisms involved in the grounding process are under dispute.Two prominent models of dialogue between multiple partici-pants are: interactive alignment, a simpler model that relieson automatic priming processes within individuals, and in-terpersonal synergy, a more complicated model emphasizingcoordinated interaction across participants. Using recurrenceanalysis methods, Fusaroli and Tyl ́en (2016) simultaneouslyevaluated both models and showed that alignment is an insuf-ficient explanation for grounding or for the teams’ task per-formance. However, their task and resulting dialogues lackthe typical complexity of conversations or teamwork. Further-more, the interpersonal synergy model was not clearly differ-entiated from other coordination-focused models of groundingwith explicit foundations in strategy and intentionality (i.e., au-dience design, joint activity, perspective taking). Here we testrecurrence-based models in a collaborative task that stressedthe grounding process. Results support a coordination modelof dialogue over the alignment model as a predictor of perfor-mance. Content-based mediation analyses showed that the co-ordination recurrence model includes critical aspects of strate-gic design and is not purely interpersonal synergy.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Communication; Dialogue; ConversationalGrounding; Multi-person Cognitive Models"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5457b1z7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Clayton","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Rothwell","name_suffix":"","institution":"Infoscitex Corp.","department":""},{"first_name":"Valerie","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Shalin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Wright State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Griffin","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Romigh","name_suffix":"","institution":"Air Force Research Laboratory","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26969/galley/16605/download/"}]}