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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear EMCA/AI network members,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <b> </b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Our next meeting will take place on 27 September (12.30-14.00 CET) </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Damien Rudaz has kindly planned the session activity for us.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please find instructions on how to contribute below. We hope you are able to prepare some data and/or add to the Miro board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session details - 27 September</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">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: <i>What 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.?</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Outlined below is a tentative list of the prominent assumptions debated last time. 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 style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Human-robot interaction as "information transfer" </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">rather than "dealing with practical problems in situated activities".</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Human-robot interaction as questions and answers </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">� a focus on turns' �composition� over turns' �position�.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Human-robot interaction as non-contingent, definite, and exhaustively describable </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">� the definiteness of reality and the possibility
of its description rather than the "essential vagueness" of social life.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Human-robot Conversation as a practical achievement that it is pointless to reconstruct analytically</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> (e.g., using CA) to, then,
extract a set of granular guidelines or rules � conversational design as "gut feeling�.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Human-robot interaction as interactions <i>with</i> machines and not interactions that<i> involve</i> machines</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> � �human-machine
coupling� rather than "interaction" in a situated and holistic sense.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">1) For the next session</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">: 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 style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">2) As a starting point, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">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 style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVK73KAOQ=/?share_link_id=431856323403" title="Original URL:
https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVK73KAOQ=/?share_link_id=431856323403
Click to follow link.">-
https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVK73KAOQ=/?share_link_id=886506295959</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">-Password: assumptions</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">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 if you think about better organizing principles or
if you have more catchy names for existing assumptions. (For those who participated in our last session, sorry in advance if we miscategorized your verbatims!)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Again many thanks to Damien for preparing all of this, we hope to see many of you after the summer!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Best wishes,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Lynn, Hannah and Saul</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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