From lynn.derijk at ru.nl Wed Oct 1 03:08:02 2025 From: lynn.derijk at ru.nl (Rijk, L.E.M. de (Lynn)) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 09:08:02 +0000 Subject: [emcai] Follow-up meeting - Posthumanism, HRI and EMCA Message-ID: Dear EMCA/AI network members, Thank you all again for the interesting meeting last Friday to kick off this semester! The discussion was still very lively at the end of the meeting, so Iuliia and I would like to do a follow-up session that continues on the discussion of posthumanism and analyzing interaction between humans and non-humans. For those interested, this will take place on Friday November 14th, 12.30-14.00 CET. We will share more details closer to the meeting, but we hope some of you are able to attend. We will send out a calendar invite for this extra meeting as well. For newer members who may not have been part of the list when these dates were sent out, we forgot to mention this at the end of the meeting, but the next two regular EMCA/AI meetings will be on October 31st and November 28th, 12.30-14.00 CET. Best wishes, Hannah and Lynn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lynn.derijk at ru.nl Wed Oct 1 03:11:27 2025 From: lynn.derijk at ru.nl (Rijk, L.E.M. de (Lynn)) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 09:11:27 +0000 Subject: [emcai] EMCA/AI follow-up meeting - Posthumanism, HRI and EMCA Message-ID: More details will follow closer to the meeting date. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: pageHeaderLogoImage_en_US.png Type: image/png Size: 18039 bytes Desc: pageHeaderLogoImage_en_US.png URL: From lynn.derijk at ru.nl Wed Oct 22 08:15:00 2025 From: lynn.derijk at ru.nl (Rijk, L.E.M. de (Lynn)) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:15:00 +0000 Subject: [emcai] Reminder EMCA/AI network meeting - 31 October 2025 Message-ID: Dear EMCA/AI network members, Hereby a reminder for our meeting next week, Friday October 31st from 12.30-14.00 CET. Meeting link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/67554855790 This will be a reading session addressing the topic of simulation. Our main reading will be Lecture 32 by Sacks. 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. The lecture came up last meeting in relation to Wizard of Oz data but it also holds relevant points for artificial agents in general. Please find it attached, it is a very short (4 pages) and interesting read. Three recent papers might furthermore be relevant to browse as background readings. Two of these concern empirical work on Wizard of Oz: Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Reeves, S. (2021). Pulling back the curtain on the wizards of Oz. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW3), 1-22. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5223052/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-wizards-of-oz Pelikan, H. R., Bu, F., & Ju, W. (2025, April). The People Behind the Robots: How Wizards Wrangle Robots in Public Deployments. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-21). https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3706598.3713237 And one theoretical paper that could be useful to our discussion in some respects: Clark, H. H., & Fischer, K. (2023). Social robots as depictions of social agents. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e21. 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 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. We hope to see you next week! Best wishes, Hannah and Lynn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sacks_Lectures-on-Conversation-imitation.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1912605 bytes Desc: Sacks_Lectures-on-Conversation-imitation.pdf URL: From jakub.mlynar at gmail.com Fri Oct 31 06:22:46 2025 From: jakub.mlynar at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?SmFrdWIgTWx5bsOhxZk=?=) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:22:46 +0100 Subject: [emcai] Fwd: Two open positions at the University of Oulu, Finland In-Reply-To: <0d8c79a7-5165-4cf7-acb7-30c24948d13en@googlegroups.com> References: <0d8c79a7-5165-4cf7-acb7-30c24948d13en@googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Dear all, Sorry to have missed the meeting today. Nevertheless, please find below an information on two open positions (PhD and postdoc) at the University of Oulu. Best wishes, Jakub ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Iira Rautiainen Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 12:38 Subject: Two open positions at the University of Oulu, Finland Hi all, FYI, two open positions at the University of Oulu (English): One Postdoctoral Researcher position in the AIDA project for 20 months, starting on the 1st of January 2026. "AIDA studies talk and social interaction, inside, with or around new digital technologies. We are searching for a researcher with a PhD and training in conversation analysis. The project focuses on social interaction in videoconferencing systems (e.g., Zoom, Teams), immersive virtual reality environments (VR) and with / around artificial intelligence systems (e.g., voice user interfaces, robots, chatbots). If you are interested in these contexts ? or better, have studied them and have database that you can work with ? you might be the person we're looking for." More information here: https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:868109/ One Doctoral Researcher position for three years from 1.1.2026 or as agreed in the project ?Multiliteracy Expertise in Future Working Life: Interaction and Coexistence of Humans and Language-based AI Systems (MultiHAI)*?*. More information here: *Doctoral Researcher, Languages and Literature, English, Faculty of Humanities * Best wishes, Iira -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: