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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear EMCA/AI network members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">With the summer break fast approaching, we would like to share the upcoming EMCA/AI meeting dates for the fall:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">27 September (12.30-14.00 CET)
<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">25 October (12.30-14.00 CET)
<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">22 November (12.30-14.00 CET)</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We already have a theme for the session in September, again with many thanks to Damien.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please find his detailed explanation of the planned session and instructions on how to contribute below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We hope you are able to prepare some data and/or add to the Miro board in the upcoming months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Session details - 27 September<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The last EMCAI session outlined several interesting “assumptions” on what constitutes “interaction” in “human-robot interaction” or “human-VUI interaction”. Because the discussion
was still lively when time ran out, we invite you to join us for one final session on the very same topic:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wh<span style="color:black;background:white">at do “we” (EMCA researchers, non-EMCA-oriented HRI researchers,
engineers, designers, tech companies' employees, etc.) respectively index when we formulate phrases such as “conversing with a robot”, “interacting with a vocal agent”, etc.?</span></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Outlined below is a tentative list of the prominent assumptions debated last time.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Some of those assumptions
may prevail in “the industry” (i.e., in private companies working on commercial robots or VUIs), while others may be at the core of different disciplines in HRI/HCI academic research. Some might be documented across multiple papers and fields, while others
might still remain unexplored.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Human-robot interaction as "information transfer"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">rather than "dealing with practical
problems in situated activities".</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Human-robot interaction as questions and answers<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">– a focus on turns' “composition” over
turns' “position”.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Human-robot interaction as non-contingent, definite, and exhaustively describable<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">–
the definiteness of reality and the possibility of its description rather than the "essential vagueness" of social life.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Human-robot Conversation as a practical achievement that it is pointless to reconstruct analytically</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(e.g.,
using CA) to, then, extract a set of granular guidelines or rules – conversational design as "gut feeling”.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Human-robot interaction as interactions<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>with</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>machines and not interactions that<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>involve</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>machines</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">–
“human-machine coupling” rather than "interaction" in a situated and holistic sense.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1) For the next session</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: To expand, correct, or refine this brief preliminary list,
we invite you to prepare any data that you would like to discuss (articles, videos, documents, etc.) and that may exemplify a common assumption about “human-robot interaction” or “human-VUI interaction”. Our intention is not to have a debate on “interaction”
as a concept, but to investigate what is indexed by different HRI actors as an “interaction”, and to explore if these assumptions impact the design of robots or VUIs – as well as the tools used to design or program them. For example, do these assumptions find
their way into the most recent conversational technologies, such as chatbots based on large language models like chatGPT? And if so, what evidence can substantiate these claims? We would love to discuss any data you might want to present, even tangentially
related to these topics.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2) As a starting point,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">the candidate
assumptions discussed during our previous session have been tentatively mapped onto a Miro board. This Miro board lays out assumptions that were hypothesized to be prevailing in HRI, as well as alternative positions that contrasted with those prevailing assumptions:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVK73KAOQ=/?share_link_id=431856323403">- https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVK73KAOQ=/?share_link_id=886506295959</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">-Password: assumptions</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We will try to use this board as a basis for our discussions next time. In the meanwhile, we invite you to modify this collaborative Miro board as you see fit. Feel free to add,
modify, or move assumptions, contrasting assumptions, comments, criticism, questions, empirical data, or to draw new clusters around the preexisting sticky notes. Similarly, do not hesitate to heavily update the Miro board<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:#222222">if
you think about better organizing principles or if you have more catchy names for existing assumptions.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>(For those who participated in our last session, sorry in advance if we miscategorized your verbatims!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Again many thanks to Damien for preparing all of this, we hope to see many of you after the summer!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lynn, Hannah and Saul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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