Central Lab LiLi

The diversity of language necessitates research on different levels: from the qualitative description of textual content and dialogue situations to the collection of corpora to the creation and quantitative evaluation of controlled experiments. To fulfill these requirements the central lab of the department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University is composed of different labs, which currently include the following:
recording lab
recording studio
multimodal interaction lab
multimodal interaction lab
behavioral lab
articulation lab
eyelab
human-agent-interaction lab

Recording Lab

Room: N5-110
Contact: Robert Eickhaus

The LiLi recording lab records audio and video for studio productions and field studies. The laboratory facilities enable the creation of voice recordings, video documentation and surveys, among others. The lab is divided into the recording studio and the multimodal interaction lab.

Recording Studio

A spacious insulated sound booth allows for professional audio recordings that can be used for controlled production studies with high audio quality in accordance with standards in articulatory phonetics.

Multimodal interaction lab

The multimodal interaction lab allows for professional audio and video recordings of interactive settings (two party, multi party, monologue task-based, free dialogue), with multiple camera angles, for multimodal recordings.

Behavioral lab

Room: M6-106
Contact: Ulik Akynbaev

The equipment of the behavioral laboratory enables the running of various computer-based experiments. The division into separate insulated booths makes it possible to run up to five experiments simultaneously.

Articulation lab

Room: M6-102
Contact: Ulik Akynbaev

Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) is a method for recording articulatory gestures during speech (e.g., lip, palate or tongue movements). The lab in Bielefeld is equipped with the Carstens Dual Articulograph AG 501. This extraordinary equipment with two synchronous EMAs allows for the simultaneous high-resolution recording of two speakers during a dialogue in the same location.

Eyelab

Room: T1-179 site plan
Contact: exp_prag@uni-bielefeld.de

The EyeLab is used for eye-tracking experiments for reading and understanding language. The lab activities are coordinated by the Experimental Pragmatics group. In our lab, we use two SR Research Eye Trackers for the study of language.

Human-Agent-Interaction Lab

Room: N5-100
Contact: Hendrik Buschmeier

In the Human-Agent-Interaction Lab computer models of language use are made tangible in dialogue situations and multimodal inter-action with embodied/corporeal agents (e.g. the Furhat robot). We also conduct studies investigating the behavior of humans when interacting with robots.