Nils Klowait

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318
Member - Research Associate - Research in the Transregional Project "Constructing Explainability", Project "Ö"
Technik und Diversity
Member - Research Associate - Research in the Transregional Project "Constructing Explainability", Project "Ö"
- Biographical note
I research multimodal interaction between humans and non-humans. My research, situated at the intersection of sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, focuses on the ethnomethodological study of embodied sensemaking practices in technology-supported interactional contexts. Through videographic techniques, I aim to understand how interaction is co-constructed by diverse participants through at-hand interactional resources, with a strong focus on the complex interplay between verbal and non-verbal action. My publications include research on human-computer interaction, embodied encounters in virtual reality, and telemediated communication.
- Scholarly works
Egorova A. I., Klowait N. (2021) How to Say Good-Bye to a Robot? The Matter of Conversational Closing. Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes, 161(1), 241–270. https:// doi.org/10.14515/monitoring.2021.1.1810.
Erofeeva, M. A., Klowait, N. (2018). Basic Income: A Capitalist Road to Communism? Book Review: Standing, Guy (2017): Basic income. And how we can make it happen. London: Pelican, Penguin Books. Sociology of Power, 30(4), 257–267. doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2018-4-257-267
Erofeeva, M. A., & Klowait, N. (2020). Dei ex machina: The Interaction Order of Gamified Distance Learning. Sociology of Power, 32(3), 189–220. doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2020-3-189-220
Erofeeva, M., & Klowait, N. O. (2021). The impact of virtual reality, augmented reality, and interactive whiteboards on the attention management in secondary school STEM teaching. 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (ILRN). [Conference Paper]
Kimstach U.M., Klowait N., Erofeeva M.A. (2021) Talking without a Voice: Virtual Co-Speakership in an Educational Webinar. Sociology of Power, 33(4): 198-216. doi: 10.22394/2074-0492-2021-4-198-216
Klowait, N. (2015). Constitutive effects of technological frames in everyday interaction. Sociology of Power, 27(1), 166-180
Klowait, N. (2017). A conceptual framework for researching emergent social orderings in encounters with automated computer-telephone interviewing agents. International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies, 15(1), 19–37
Klowait, N. (2017). Technogenic Institutional Talk in an Automated Computer-Telephone Interviewing System. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 1(16), 24–31
Klowait, N. (2018). Reflexive anthropomorphism: Ontological ignorance, or ignorant ontology? Sociological Journal, 24(1), 8–33. doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2018.24.1.5711
Klowait, N. (2018). The quest for appropriate models of human-likeness: anthropomorphism in media equation research. AI & Society, 33(4), 527–536. doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0746-z
Klowait, N. O., & Erofeeva, M. (2019). Work in the age of intelligent machines: The rise of invisible automation. Philosophical Literary Journal Logos, 29(1), 53–84. doi.org/10.22394/0869-5377-2019-1-53-80
Klowait, N. O. (2019). Interactionism in the age of ubiquitous telecommunication. Information, Communication and Society, 22(5), 605–621. doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2019.1566487
Klowait, N., & Erofeeva, M. A. (2021). The Rise of Interactional Multimodality in Human-Computer Interaction. Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes, 161(1), 46-70. Https://doi.org/10.14515/monitoring.2021.1.1793
Klowait, N. (2022). On the Multimodal Resolution of a Search Sequence in Virtual Reality. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies [Under Review]
Klowait, N. O., Erofeeva, M. A., Zababurin, D. (2022). Accomplishing Mutuality in Virtual Reality - The Challenges of Fractured Embodiment. Prologi [Upcoming]
Klowait, N., Erofeeva, M.A., Zababurin, D. (2022). Halting the Decay of Talk – How Atypical Interactants Adapt their Virtual Worlds. Social Interaction. [Under Revision]
Spiridonov, V. F., Erofeeva, M. A., Klowait, N. O., Adrislamov, V. V., Morozov, M. I., & Zdilar, S. (2021). Interactive problem solving revisited: Replicating the effects of interactivity using matchstick algebra problems. Psychological Studies, 14(79). doi.org/10.54359/ps.v14i79.119
Spiridonov V.F., Erofeeva M.A., Klowait N.O., Ardislamov V.V., Morozov M.I., Zdilar S. Is interactive problem solving really interactive? Thinking and Reasoning [Under Revision]