Based on several experiments bringing about encounters between human and robots, we try to understand how people engage with robots. We show how humans rely on the resources of everyday mltimodal interaction both to engage with robots, but also to make sense of what the latter do or can do. In particular, the way they recipient-design their action, manage openings and closings, or rely on additional resources to make sens of robots' behaviour (belly screens) publicly displays the humans' stance of human users with respect to robots' abilities. Experiments show how the robot's competence (or incompetence) is a dynamic interactional accomplishment which is also revisable and defeasible in the course of the encounter. The importance of the ability of the robot to provide relevant interactional moves, even occasionally, proves crucial in that respect, and therefore appears a relevant issue for future design.
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