From lynn.derijk at ru.nl Thu Mar 2 06:05:15 2023 From: lynn.derijk at ru.nl (Rijk, L.E.M. de (Lynn)) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 13:05:15 +0000 Subject: [emcai] Next meeting EMCA/AI network Message-ID: Dear EMCA/AI network members, First off, thank you to those that were able to attend last week?s data session! Despite Zoom limiting us a little, it was engaging to try out Hannah?s design exercise after our more traditional data session. You can find the meeting minutes here, as always please feel free to add. Our next meeting will take place on March 31st at: - BST (London): 12:00am - CET (Berlin, Stockholm, Paris): 1:00 pm - EDT (Boston, New York): 7:00am - Hong Kong: 7:00pm Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/69884330110 As we decided last meeting, we will discuss a recently published paper called ?Recipient design in human?robot interaction: the emergent assessment of a robot?s competence?, by Sylvain Tuncer, Christian Licoppe, Paul Luff, and Christian Heath. You can find the paper attached. Abstract People meeting a robot for the first time do not know what it is capable of and therefore how to interact with it?what actions to produce, and how to produce them. Despite social robotics? long-standing interest in the effects of robots? appearance and conduct on users, and efforts to identify factors likely to improve human?robot interaction, little attention has been paid to how participants evaluate their robotic partner in the unfolding of actual interactions. This paper draws from qualitative analyses of video-recorded interactions between a robot and groups of participants, in the framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. We analyse the particular ways in which participants shape their embodied actions, how they can reproduce a prior action that failed to obtain a response from the robot; and how they explore the robot?s embodied nature. We find a set of recurrent methods or practices, showing that robot-recipient design displays not only participants? initial assumptions about the robot?s competences, but also more importantly perhaps their continuous assessment of the robot?s behaviour, and their attempts to adapt to it. Participants locally produce and constantly revise their understanding of the robot as a more or less competent co-participant, drawing from its past, current, and projected conduct and responsiveness. We discuss the implications of these findings for research in robotics and human?robot interactions, and the value of the approach to shed new light on old questions by paying attention to the quality of gesture and the sequential organisation of interaction. If you know others who might be interested in joining the discussions, please share information about the network here! We also welcome you to add or update your presentation slide if you haven?t done so yet. We hope to see you again end of March! Hannah Pelikan, Lynn de Rijk, and Saul Albert Lynn de Rijk, MA (she/they) | Promovendus / PhD candidate | Centre for Language Studies| Radboud Universiteit | Erasmusgebouw, kamer 6.06 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Tunceretal2022_Emergentassessmentrobotscompetence.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1655248 bytes Desc: Tunceretal2022_Emergentassessmentrobotscompetence.pdf URL: From S.B.Albert at lboro.ac.uk Sat Mar 4 11:31:55 2023 From: S.B.Albert at lboro.ac.uk (Saul Albert) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 18:31:55 +0000 Subject: [emcai] GailBot beta tester call Message-ID: Hi all, 'GailBot' is a piece of experimental software designed at Tufts Human Interaction Lab (https://sites.tufts.edu/hilab/gailbot-an-automatic-transcription-system-for-conversation-analysis/) to do first-pass CA automated transcripts. 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You can find the paper attached. Abstract People meeting a robot for the first time do not know what it is capable of and therefore how to interact with it?what actions to produce, and how to produce them. Despite social robotics? long-standing interest in the effects of robots? appearance and conduct on users, and efforts to identify factors likely to improve human?robot interaction, little attention has been paid to how participants evaluate their robotic partner in the unfolding of actual interactions. This paper draws from qualitative analyses of video-recorded interactions between a robot and groups of participants, in the framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. We analyse the particular ways in which participants shape their embodied actions, how they can reproduce a prior action that failed to obtain a response from the robot; and how they explore the robot?s embodied nature. We find a set of recurrent methods or practices, showing that robot-recipient design displays not only participants? initial assumptions about the robot?s competences, but also more importantly perhaps their continuous assessment of the robot?s behaviour, and their attempts to adapt to it. Participants locally produce and constantly revise their understanding of the robot as a more or less competent co-participant, drawing from its past, current, and projected conduct and responsiveness. We discuss the implications of these findings for research in robotics and human?robot interactions, and the value of the approach to shed new light on old questions by paying attention to the quality of gesture and the sequential organisation of interaction. If you know others who might be interested in joining the discussions, please share information about the network here! We also welcome you to add or update your presentation slide if you haven?t done so yet. 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Our next meeting will take place on March 31st at: - BST (London): 12:00 noon - CET (Berlin, Stockholm, Paris): 1:00 pm - EDT (Boston, New York): 7:00am - Hong Kong: 7:00pm Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/69884330110 As we decided last meeting, we will discuss a recently published paper called ?Recipient design in human?robot interaction: the emergent assessment of a robot?s competence?, by Sylvain Tuncer, Christian Licoppe, Paul Luff, and Christian Heath. You can find the paper attached. Abstract People meeting a robot for the first time do not know what it is capable of and therefore how to interact with it?what actions to produce, and how to produce them. Despite social robotics? long-standing interest in the effects of robots? appearance and conduct on users, and efforts to identify factors likely to improve human?robot interaction, little attention has been paid to how participants evaluate their robotic partner in the unfolding of actual interactions. This paper draws from qualitative analyses of video-recorded interactions between a robot and groups of participants, in the framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. We analyse the particular ways in which participants shape their embodied actions, how they can reproduce a prior action that failed to obtain a response from the robot; and how they explore the robot?s embodied nature. We find a set of recurrent methods or practices, showing that robot-recipient design displays not only participants? initial assumptions about the robot?s competences, but also more importantly perhaps their continuous assessment of the robot?s behaviour, and their attempts to adapt to it. Participants locally produce and constantly revise their understanding of the robot as a more or less competent co-participant, drawing from its past, current, and projected conduct and responsiveness. We discuss the implications of these findings for research in robotics and human?robot interactions, and the value of the approach to shed new light on old questions by paying attention to the quality of gesture and the sequential organisation of interaction. If you know others who might be interested in joining the discussions, please share information about the network here! We also welcome you to add or update your presentation slide if you haven?t done so yet. We hope to see you again end of March! Hannah Pelikan, Lynn de Rijk, and Saul Albert ________________________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/calendar Size: 9791 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wyke.stommel at ru.nl Thu Mar 16 02:06:47 2023 From: wyke.stommel at ru.nl (Stommel, W.J.P. (Wyke)) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:06:47 +0000 Subject: [emcai] call for papers Discourse & Communication In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear EMCAI group, Please find attached a call for abstracts/papers for a Special Issue of Discourse and Communication on "Conversation Analysis and Conversational Technologies" for discussion at the start of the next EMCAI network meeting on Friday 31st March. The call is being circulated first within the EMCAI network, but please feel free to share it with your networks and collaborators. Best, also on behalf of Saul, Hendrik and Liz, Wyke Wyke Stommel | Associate Professor Language and Communication | Chair of Communication in Organisations Centre for Language Studies | Radboud University | Nijmegen | +31(0)6 31133014 Postbus 9103 6500HD Nijmegen ________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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These presentations are lowkey, we are thinking of taking about 5 minutes per person (the word presentation might suggest slides, but we are really just thinking to show some data and talk about the presented data/project together). If you have something you would like to discuss on the 21st aside from this show-and-tell idea, please don?t hesitate to email us (lynn.derijk at ru.nl). Best wishes, Hannah, Lynn, and Saul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hannah.pelikan at liu.se Fri Mar 31 06:57:20 2023 From: hannah.pelikan at liu.se (Hannah Pelikan) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:57:20 +0000 Subject: [emcai] EMCA/AI network April 2023 meeting Message-ID: Dear EMCA/AI network members, Thanks again to those who were able to attend the meeting today. Hannah and I really enjoyed the discussion, we hope you did as well! We will share the meeting minutes before the next meeting. The next meeting will take place on April 21st, in order to avoid potential calendar conflicts for those of us attending CHI. We would like to do a ?show-and-tell?, with everyone showing a bit of data and explaining what they have been/are working on. These presentations are lowkey, we are thinking of taking about 5 minutes per person (the word presentation might suggest slides, but we are really just thinking to show some data and talk about the presented data/project together). If you have something you would like to discuss on the 21st aside from this show-and-tell idea, please don?t hesitate to email us (lynn.derijk at ru.nl). Best wishes, Hannah, Lynn, and Saul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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These presentations are lowkey, we are thinking of taking about 5 minutes per person (the word presentation might suggest slides, but we are really just thinking to show some data and talk about the presented data/project together). > > If you have something you would like to discuss on the 21st aside from this show-and-tell idea, please don?t hesitate to email us (lynn.derijk at ru.nl). > > Best wishes, > Hannah, Lynn, and Saul > > -- > emcai mailing list > emcai at conversationanalysis.org > http://conversationanalysis.org/mailman/listinfo/emcai_conversationanalysis.org Stuart Reeves | Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science (C15), University of Nottingham http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~str This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. 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