Katharina Rohlfing

Katharina Rohlfing

katharina.rohlfing(at)upb(dot)de
+49 5251 60-5717
Institution: Paderborn University
Department: Institute of German Philology and Comparative Literary Studies
https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/en/institut-fuer-germanistik-und-vergleichende-literaturwissenschaft/germanistische-und-allgemeine-sprachwissenschaft/rohlfing

Social Learning/Asymmetric Interaction; Human-AI Interaction; Multimodal Interaction; Cognitive Development

Multimodal scaffolding strategies, pragmatic frames, adaptive interaction, explainable AI, long-term learning & language acquisition, ethically-informed research

  • Infants' individual sensitivity to saliency shapes early word learning in social interaction (2026)

    Authors: Eugenia Wildt, Amit Singh, Katharina J. Rohlfing

    Published at: Acta Psychologica (Volume: 266)
    DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.106977

  • The relation between children's shyness and their contingent dialogical actions when reacting to a social robot's instructions (2026)

    Authors: Valeriia Tykhonenko, Nils F. Tolksdorf, Katharina J. Rohlfing

    Published at: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences (Volume: 381)
    DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0375

  • Forms of understanding for XAI-Explanations (2025)

    Authors: Hendrik Buschmeier, Heike M. Buhl, Friederike Kern, Angela Grimminger, Helen Beierling, Josephine Fisher, André Groß, Ilona Horwath, Nils Klowait, Stefan Lazarov, Michael Lenke, Vivien Lohmer, Katharina Rohlfing, Ingrid Scharlau, Amit Singh, Lutz Terfloth, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Yu Wang, Annedore Wilmes, Britta Wrede

    Published at: Cognitive Systems Research (Volume: 94)
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2025.101419

  • Contrastive Verbal Guidance: A Beneficial Context for Attention To Events and Their Memory? (2025)

    Authors: Amit Singh, Katharina J. Rohlfing

    Published at: Cognitive Science (Volume: 49)
    DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70096

  • Manners Matter: Action History Guides Attention and Repair Choices During Interaction (2025)

    Authors: Amit Singh, Britta Wrede, Birte Richter, Andre Gros, Katharina J. Rohlfing

    Published at: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning ICDL 2025
    DOI: 10.1109/ICDL63968.2025.11204385

  • Message from the Chairs (2025)

    Authors: Matej Hoffmann, Emre Ugur, Alessandra Sciutti, Katharina Rohlfing, Karla Stepanova, Lukas Rustler

    Published at: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning ICDL 2025
    DOI: 10.1109/ICDL63968.2025.11204416

  • Explain with, rather than explain to: How explainees shape their own learning (2024)

    Authors: Josephine B. Fisher, Katharina J. Rohlfing, Ed Donnellan, Angela Grimminger, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco

    Published at: Interaction Studies (Volume: 25)
    DOI: 10.1075/is.23019.fis

  • Coupling of Task and Partner Model: Investigating the Intra-Individual Variability in Gaze during Human-Robot Explanatory Dialogue (2024)

    Authors: Amit Singh, Katharina J. Rohlfing

    Published at: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
    DOI: 10.1145/3686215.3689202

  • Four-year-olds’ visuospatial cognitive abilities and their relation to observer‑viewpoint gestures across three communicative tasks (2024)

    Authors: Ulrich J. Boden, Friederike Kern, Sofia Koutalidis, Olga Abramov, Anne Nemeth, Stefan Kopp, Katharina J. Rohlfing

    Published at: Pragmatics and Cognition (Volume: 31)
    DOI: 10.1075/pc.00040.roh

  • Preschool children's discourse competence in different genres and how it relates to iconic gestures (2024)

    Authors: Friederike Kern, Ulrich Boden, Anne Nemeth, Sofia Koutalidis, Olga Abramov, Stefan Kopp, Katharina J. Rohlfing

    Published at: Journal of Child Language (Volume: 51)
    DOI: 10.1017/S030500092300065X