Dr. Xiaoting Li is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta. Her field of research is interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and multimodal analysis. Her research focuses on how people use grammar, prosody, bodily-visual behaviors, and objects in the surround to make meaning and socialize in interaction. Her research can be applied to AI and human-machine interaction from the perspective of understanding how human employ various multimodal resources to conduct naturalistic interaction. Her publications include Interpersonal Touch in Conversational Joking (Research on Language and Social Interaction), click-Initiated Self-Repair in Changing the Sequential Trajectory of Actions-in-Progress (Research on Language and Social Interaction), Multimoodality, Interaction, and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation (John Benjamins, 2014), and Multimodality in Chinese Interaction (2019, co-edited with Tsuyoshi Ono, Mouton de Gruyter). Her current book project is Language, Body, and Action - A multimodal grammar of Mandarin (Cambridge University Press). She is the principal investigator of the Faculty of Arts Signature Area, Language, Communication, and Culture. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Chinese Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Alberta.