Human–robot interaction · cognitive linguistics · pedagogy
The science of learning to talk — with robots.
I'm a PhD researcher at KTH (Speech, Music & Hearing). I run empirical studies on how conversational robots support second-language learning — and what that reveals about human cognition.
Publications
View all →Personalized Language Learning with an LLM Chatbot: Effects of Immediate vs. Delayed Corrective Feedback
Frontiers in Education
2025 Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Social Robots as Conversational Practice Companions in Language Learning
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2024 Conformity and Trust in Multi-party vs. Individual Human-Robot Interaction
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '24)
Field notes
All notes → Jul 2026
Break Free from Zotero Storage Limits: How to Host Your Own WebDAV Server
tutorialStop suffering the 300MB of Zotero -- Start storing the PDFs!
Jul 2026Three Doors: Announcing the New Site
essayWhy ali.mk is now a house with three doors instead of one crowded room.
Feb 2025My Participation in HRI 2025
conferencePapers, HRI Pioneers, and a week in Melbourne at the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.