From prgering1 at sheffield.ac.uk Mon Aug 19 02:06:32 2024 From: prgering1 at sheffield.ac.uk (Paul R Gering) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:06:32 +0100 Subject: [emcai] Participate in PhD Research (Online Interviews) Message-ID: Dear all, My name is Paul Gering, and I am a PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield with Roger K Moore as my supervisor. My PhD project is focused on measuring the quality of social interactions. I am writing to invite you to participate in an online semi-structured interview to share your valuable insights on this topic. Your participation would be greatly appreciated, as your perspective as a researcher and/or potential user of an interaction quality measure is crucial to this research. The Interview: - The interview will be conducted online via Google Meet (depending on your preference) at a mutually convenient time. - It will last approximately 1 hour and will involve open-ended questions to explore your thoughts on defining and measuring interaction quality. - Your participation is entirely voluntary and confidential. All recordings will be anonymized and used solely for research purposes. Who Should Participate? We are seeking individuals with: - An interest in evaluating the quality of interactions. - Experience working in a field that could benefit from a measure of interaction quality. If you are interested in participating, please email the primary researcher (prgering at sheffield.ac.uk). Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Paul Gering PhD Researcher (University of Sheffield) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From manuel.pita at ulusofona.pt Mon Aug 19 09:25:33 2024 From: manuel.pita at ulusofona.pt (Manuel Pita) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:25:33 -0700 Subject: [emcai] Participate in PhD Research (Online Interviews) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Paul, I am interested in the topic. I would like to contribute. Kind regards Manuel *--* *Dr. Manuel Pita* Director MSc Data Science Assistant Professor of Informatics CICANT - Universidade Lus?fona, Centro Universit?rio Lisboa. On Mon, Aug 19 2024 at 9:06 AM, Paul R Gering < emcai at conversationanalysis.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > My name is Paul Gering, and I am a PhD researcher at the University of > Sheffield with Roger K Moore as my supervisor. My PhD project is focused on > measuring the quality of social interactions. > > I am writing to invite you to participate in an online semi-structured > interview to share your valuable insights on this topic. Your participation > would be greatly appreciated, as your perspective as a researcher and/or > potential user of an interaction quality measure is crucial to this > research. > > The Interview: > > - > > The interview will be conducted online via Google Meet (depending on > your preference) at a mutually convenient time. > - > > It will last approximately 1 hour and will involve open-ended > questions to explore your thoughts on defining and measuring interaction > quality. > - > > Your participation is entirely voluntary and confidential. All > recordings will be anonymized and used solely for research purposes. > > Who Should Participate? > > We are seeking individuals with: > > - > > An interest in evaluating the quality of interactions. > - > > Experience working in a field that could benefit from a measure of > interaction quality. > > If you are interested in participating, please email the primary > researcher (prgering at sheffield.ac.uk). > > Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from > you! > > Sincerely, > > Paul Gering > > PhD Researcher (University of Sheffield) > > > -- > emcai mailing list > emcai at conversationanalysis.org > > http://conversationanalysis.org/mailman/listinfo/emcai_conversationanalysis.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hannah.pelikan at liu.se Wed Aug 21 05:41:57 2024 From: hannah.pelikan at liu.se (Hannah Pelikan) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:41:57 +0000 Subject: [emcai] EMCAI Network meeting Message-ID: Dear EMCA/AI network members, Our next meeting will take place on 27 September (12.30-14.00 CET) Damien Rudaz has kindly planned the session activity for us. Please find instructions on how to contribute below. We hope you are able to prepare some data and/or add to the Miro board. Session details - 27 September 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: 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.? 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. 1. Human-robot interaction as "information transfer" rather than "dealing with practical problems in situated activities". 2. Human-robot interaction as questions and answers ? a focus on turns' ?composition? over turns' ?position?. 3. Human-robot interaction as non-contingent, definite, and exhaustively describable ? the definiteness of reality and the possibility of its description rather than the "essential vagueness" of social life. 4. Human-robot Conversation as a practical achievement that it is pointless to reconstruct analytically (e.g., using CA) to, then, extract a set of granular guidelines or rules ? conversational design as "gut feeling?. 5. Human-robot interaction as interactions with machines and not interactions that involve machines ? ?human-machine coupling? rather than "interaction" in a situated and holistic sense. 1) For the next session: 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. 2) As a starting point, 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: - https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVK73KAOQ=/?share_link_id=886506295959 -Password: assumptions 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!) Again many thanks to Damien for preparing all of this, we hope to see many of you after the summer! 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My PhD project is focused on > measuring the quality of social interactions. > > I am writing to invite you to participate in an online semi-structured > interview to share your valuable insights on this topic. Your participation > would be greatly appreciated, as your perspective as a researcher and/or > potential user of an interaction quality measure is crucial to this > research. > > The Interview: > > - > > The interview will be conducted online via Google Meet (depending on > your preference) at a mutually convenient time. > - > > It will last approximately 1 hour and will involve open-ended > questions to explore your thoughts on defining and measuring interaction > quality. > - > > Your participation is entirely voluntary and confidential. All > recordings will be anonymized and used solely for research purposes. > > Who Should Participate? > > We are seeking individuals with: > > - > > An interest in evaluating the quality of interactions. > - > > Experience working in a field that could benefit from a measure of > interaction quality. > > If you are interested in participating, please email the primary > researcher (prgering at sheffield.ac.uk). > > Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from > you! > > Sincerely, > > Paul Gering > > PhD Researcher (University of Sheffield) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am writing to invite you to participate in an online semi-structured interview to share your valuable insights on this topic. Your participation would be greatly appreciated, as your perspective as a researcher and/or potential user of an interaction quality measure is crucial to this research. The Interview: The interview will be conducted online via Google Meet (depending on your preference) at a mutually convenient time. It will last approximately 1 hour and will involve open-ended questions to explore your thoughts on defining and measuring interaction quality. Your participation is entirely voluntary and confidential. All recordings will be anonymized and used solely for research purposes. Who Should Participate? We are seeking individuals with: - An interest in evaluating the quality of social interactions. - Experience working in a field that could benefit from a measure of interaction quality. 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