Christoph Rühlemann
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Christoph Rühlemann
@chrisrueh.bsky.social
I love life, love, my wife, my kids, doing research, collaborating, following my curiosity, R, Regex, …; currently PI of DFG-funded project on Multimodal Turn Completion Cues at Freiburg University
Happy to see this out in Discourse Processes, after more than 2 years hard work:

our proposal to extend the current concensus model on speechplanning by factoring in next-speaker selection:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Speech planning depends on next-speaker selection: evidence from pupillometry in question–answer sequences in naturalistic triadic conversation
Next-speaker selection, which controls who should speak next, is fundamental to turn taking. While it is central in Conversation Analysis, little is known about its cognitive repercussions. We draw...
www.tandfonline.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
still fascinated by how we can visualize meaningful patterns in linguistic data and - nonetheless - create aesthetically pleasing graphics. Here: Mutual Gaze in 'open-floor' QA sequences (i.e., where both recipients are licensed to answer, e.g., "where are you guys from?")
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Interested in gesture research, and how gestures impact emotions in storytelling? Check out our Frontiers paper (w/ @jamestrujillo.bsky.social), which just reached a new milestone with 500+ downloads:
: www.frontiersin.org/article/1477...
Frontiers | The effect of gesture expressivity on emotional resonance in storytelling interaction
The key function of storytelling is a meeting of hearts: a resonance in the recipient(s) of the story narrator’s emotion toward the story events. This paper ...
www.frontiersin.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
News from the multimodal transcription front ;)

Why not include in transcripts, not only data on observable behavior such as gaze movements (cf. A-gaze, etc.), phases of mutual gaze, and so on, but also imperceptible data such as pupil size changes (since they index internal cognitive effort)?
June 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
If you've thought it merely possible, it's now time to acknowledge it as a fact: the majority of 70+ m ppl who voted 4 T despite glaring deficits did so because he wants to save white supremacy.

South Africa Collides Head-On With Trump’s Claims of White Victimhood www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...
South Africa Collides Head-On With Trump’s Claims of White Victimhood
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Happy to be a (double) contributor (once with Elisabeth Zima & Peter Auer @UniFreiburg, once with Mathias Barthel @IDS Mannheim) to this completely OA volume on eye tracking:

www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...
Mobile Eye Tracking | John Benjamins
Situated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics, this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction, with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our...
www.jbe-platform.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Glad to see my "Regex in R for Multimodal Analysis" workshop on IPrA-website:

pragmatics.international/page/PreConf...

You painstakingly elaborate transcripts & annotations in ELAN but no clue how to synthesize, aggregate, large-scale analyze & visualize this data? This workshop might be for you.
February 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Also possible to read-in & structure *several (e.g., hundreds)* of #CA transcripts in *single piece of code (i.e., in 1 go)*

Here's 1 way to do this for 3 transcripts from Stivers 2021; gaps & pauses are extracted into separate columns showing simple transformations possible once the data are in R
January 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Anybody interested in converting #CA transcripts into machine-readable data frames? Can be done with Regular expression in R.

Here's an example from Stivers (2021), extract (4):
January 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On my way, via Frankfurt, to Marburg to teach “Regex in R”
January 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A thoughtful and entertaining reflection on her blog posts by Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social , including the one explaining her resignation from the Royal Society (because Musk). Apparently Toby Young didn't like it, which for any sensible person is a ringing endorsement
deevybee.blogspot.com
January 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Christoph Rühlemann
Yes, very exciting to have our paper coming online soon! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
We looked at how "gesture expressivity" develops over the course of a story telling, and how this gesture expressivity is associated with emotional resonance between storyteller and listener.
December 12, 2024 at 11:53 AM
So I’ll start my Bluesky career with some happy news @jamestrujillo.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Hi, I’m on blue sky! Got fed up with the dirt on the X ground
November 26, 2024 at 2:15 PM