From lynn.derijk at ru.nl Thu Nov 13 03:03:59 2025 From: lynn.derijk at ru.nl (Rijk, L.E.M. de (Lynn)) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:03:59 +0000 Subject: [emcai] Reminder EMCA/AI meeting tomorrow - Posthumanism, HRI, and CA Message-ID: Dear EMCA/AI network members, Hereby a reminder for our follow-up meeting tomorrow, Friday 14 November, 12.30-14.00 CET on posthumanism, HRI, and CA. Meeting link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/67554855790 As a refresher on the topic, please find some slides prepared for an earlier meeting here. These slides show how we initially got to the discussion of posthumanism in this network, and describes provisionally some potential converging/diverging aspects of posthumanism and HRI focused EM/CA. For this additional meeting, we would like to delve deeper into the topic using the following questions as a starting point. We will also have data fragments available to aid our discussion where useful. Fundamental: * How might a posthumanist perspective influence EM/CA analysis? * Which posthumanist ideas/theories are most compatible with EM/CA? * Are there EM or CA studies that could already be read as posthumanist, even if they do not explicitly identify as such? Methodological: * What kinds of data are most suitable for a posthumanist EM/CA approach (e.g., video, interviews, etc)? What new methodological strategies might be needed (e.g. playful, experimental, or design-led engagements with phenomena)? * What is the role of the unique adequacy requirement in a posthuman ethnomethodology? To what extent can it apply to nonhuman actors? * How can we present data/analysis in ways that does not center human agency? What kind of language might better capture similarities and differences in ?interaction? between human and nonhuman participants? * What ethical issues arise when we decide to recognize or analyze nonhuman agencies? We look forward to seeing you tomorrow! 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Journal of Classical Sociology, 9(4), 475-499. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1468795X09344453 Watson?s article hopefully helps us discuss the concept on a deeper level, as it calls on Garfinkel?s formative chapter on trust (please find attached as well as background for those interested). It raises among other things the difference between trust as background condition for participating in a practice vs. product of practice and interaction and the manifestation of trust in interaction vs. metrics of trust. We would also like to share this informative background reading by Ivarsson and Lindwall, who apply the concept of trust as developed by Garfinkel to the field of conversational agents: Ivarsson, J., & Lindwall, O. (2023). Suspicious minds: the problem of trust and conversational agents. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 32(3), 545-571. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-023-09465-8 We hope you are able to join this last meeting of the semester! 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Name: Garfinkel-A Conception of and Experiments with, ?Trust? as a Condition of Stable Concerted Actions.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 7830584 bytes Desc: Garfinkel-A Conception of and Experiments with, ?Trust? as a Condition of Stable Concerted Actions.pdf URL: From jakub.mlynar at gmail.com Wed Nov 26 00:24:29 2025 From: jakub.mlynar at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?SmFrdWIgTWx5bsOhxZk=?=) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:24:29 +0100 Subject: [emcai] Fwd: Job annoucement - EMCA postdoc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, I will soon be hiring two postdocs and one research assistant to join my new four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The research is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and will involve in-depth (video-)ethnographic work in medical and educational settings in the French-speaking part of Switzerland (hence some language requirements), focusing on the integration of AI into image-based personalized medicine. You can find more details below and in the attached documents. The deadline for applications is 31 December 2025 (the online system will open on 10 December). The official starting date of the project is 1 March 2026. For any inquiries, please feel free to contact me directly. Of course, if you know about someone who might be interested and is not on the EMCA-AI mailing list, thanks for forwarding this email to them. Best wishes, Jakub --- We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers (80%) and one research assistant (50%) to join us for a new four-year project at the Human-Centred Computing Group, Institute of Informatics, HES-SO Valais-Wallis University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and consists of two interrelated parts: (1) integrating AI-based technologies into lecturing practices and classroom interactions in medical environments (e.g., radiology), and (2) examining decision-making procedures in hospital settings, with an emphasis on how AI-based technologies are incorporated into clinical workflows and professional reasoning. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to conduct in-depth ethnographic research in a rich interdisciplinary environment involving the Institute of Informatics at HES-SO Valais-Wallis and several departments of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), including the Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Department. The starting date is 1 March 2026 (or to be determined), and the place of work is Sierre (Valais, Switzerland). More details can be found in the attached announcement (in English and French). 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