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  1. Towards a Systematic Model of the Effects of Transparency Utterances on Calibrating Trust in Social Robots

    Article • March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  2. Making Sense of Robots in Public Spaces: A Study of Trash Barrel Robots

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  3. The Effect of Emotional Expression on the Use of a Hand-Sanitizing Robot

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer, John Allan Øllgaard, Peter Hye Nielsen

  4. Which Voice for which Robot? Designing Robot Voices that Indicate Robot Size

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer, Prof. Dr. Oliver Niebuhr

  5. An Experimental Exploration of Quotidian Framing

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, July 2023, Brill

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  6. A Persuasive Hand Sanitizer Robot in the Wild

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  7. Tracking Anthropomorphizing Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  8. What influences influence?

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  9. In the same boat

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  10. What Influences Influence? How the Communicative Situation Influences Persuasion

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  11. Effects of Gaze and Speech in Human-Robot Medical Interactions

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  12. Speed and Speech Impact on the Usage of a Hand Sanitizer Robot

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  13. Initiating Human-Robot Interactions Using Incremental Speech Adaptation

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer, Rosalyn M. Langedijk

  14. The Role of a Social Robot in Behavior Change Coaching

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  15. Effect Confirmed, Patient Dead

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  16. Experimental Contrastive Pragmatics Using Robots

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, April 2020, Brill

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  17. Studying Language Attitudes Using Robots

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  18. Speech Melody Matters—How Robots Profit from Using Charismatic Speech

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, January 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer, Prof. Dr. Oliver Niebuhr

  19. Integrative Social Robotics Hands-on

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, January 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer, Dr. Astrid Weiss, Johanna Seibt

  20. Robot use cases for real needs: A large-scale ethnographic case study

    Article • Paladyn, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer, Rosalyn M. Langedijk

  21. Inferential Processes in English and the Question whether English has Modal Particles

    Article • Open Linguistics, December 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  22. Increasing trust in human–robot medical interactions: effects of transparency and adaptability

    Article • Paladyn, June 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  23. How intonation contours can be taught to second language learners

    Article • International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, December 2017, John Benjamins

    Prof. Dr. Oliver Niebuhr, Nathalie Schümchen, Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  24. It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better

    Article • March 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  25. How do we choose our speech style for a particular addressee?

    Article • November 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  26. On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre

    Article • Constructions and Frames, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Kiki Nikiforidou, Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  27. On the interaction of constructions with register and genre

    Article • Constructions and Frames, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Kiki Nikiforidou, Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  28. Situation in grammar or in frames?

    Article • Constructions and Frames, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  29. Conversation, Construction Grammar, and cognition

    Article • Language and Cognition, November 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  30. Error Feedback for Robust Learning from Demonstration

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  31. Negotiating Instruction Strategies during Robot Action Demonstration

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  32. Human Smile Distinguishes between Collaborative and Solitary Tasks in Human-Robot Interaction

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  33. People do not interact with robots like they do with dogs

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, August 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  34. Mindful tutors

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, April 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  35. Beyond the sentence

    Article • Constructions and Frames, December 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  36. Editorial

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, August 2010, John Benjamins

    Hartmut Haberland, Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer

  37. Review of Itakura (2001): Conversational Dominance and Gender. A Study of Japanese Speakers in First and Second Language Contexts

    Article • Studies in Language, June 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor (MSO) Kerstin Fischer