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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear EMCA/AI network members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hereby a reminder for our meeting next week,
<b>Friday October 31<sup>st</sup> from 12.30-14.00 CET.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">Meeting link: <a href="https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/67554855790">
https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/67554855790</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This will be a reading session addressing the topic of
<b>simulation</b>. Our main reading will be Lecture 32 by Sacks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This lecture concerns the notion of imitation, touching on what it means for behavior to be treated as an imitation rather than the ‘real’ thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The lecture came up last meeting in relation to Wizard of Oz data but it also holds relevant points for artificial agents in general.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please find it attached, it is a very short (4 pages) and interesting read.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">T</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">hree recent papers might furthermore be relevant to browse as background readings. Two of these concern empirical work on Wizard of Oz:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Reeves, S. (2021). Pulling back the curtain on the wizards of Oz. <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction</i>, <i>4</i>(CSCW3),
1-22.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><u><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5223052/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-wizards-of-oz"><span lang="EN-US">https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5223052/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-wizards-of-oz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="DE">Pelikan, H. R., Bu, F., & Ju, W. (2025, April).
</span><span lang="EN-US">The People Behind the Robots: How Wizards Wrangle Robots in Public Deployments. In <i>Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</i> (pp. 1-21).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt;background:white"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3706598.3713237">https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3706598.3713237</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">And one theoretical paper that could be useful to our discussion in some respects:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="DE" style="color:black">Clark, H. H., & Fischer, K. (2023).
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Social robots as depictions of social agents. </span><i><span style="color:black">Behavioral and Brain Sciences</span></i><span style="color:black">, <i>46</i>, e21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/F5CB476CCC6A1BF375489045F4BED200/S0140525X22000668a.pdf/div-class-title-social-robots-as-depictions-of-social-agents-div.pdf">https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/F5CB476CCC6A1BF375489045F4BED200/S0140525X22000668a.pdf/div-class-title-social-robots-as-depictions-of-social-agents-div.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">These background readings are (as the name implies) not meant as the central readings of this session, so please read them only to the extent fitting your time and interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We hope to see you next week!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hannah and Lynn</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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