[emcai] PhD course on interaction, communication and AI - 16/17 April, Oulu

[Jakub Mlynář]

Dear colleagues,

Thanks to an invitation from Pentti Haddington and Tiina Eilittä, I will be
giving a two‑day course at the University of Oulu on 16–17 April
titled “*Interaction,
communication, and mundane AI*”. The course will combine conceptual
discussions with empirical work in the EMCA tradition to explore the
constitutive features of “interaction with AI” and examine the practical
organization of such settings.

More information can be found below and attached.

Deadline for registration is *20 March 2026*.

Registration link:
https://link.webropolsurveys.com/Participation/Public/5c3095d9-7db6-41f4-a6bd-a16f27f83306?displayId=Fin3051999

Looking forward to meeting some of you there.

Kind regards,
Jakub


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*From:* Pentti Haddington <pentti.haddington at oulu.fi>
*Sent:* Monday, 16 February 2026 07:30
*Subject:* PhD course on interaction, communication and artificial
intelligence

*Step inside the everyday worlds of people making sense of AI as part of
their interactions. This course offers you a hands-on lens to unpack the
ways in which AI systems are **embedded** into our ordinary social lives.*

*Dates: *16-17 April 2026
*Place: *Oulu, Finland (on-site only)
*Instructor: *Dr. Jakub Mlynar (HES-SO Valais-Wallis University of Applied
Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland)
*Sign-up: *https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/25702765695A4387

The University of Oulu Graduate School, COACT research community and the
AIDA project organise a PhD course on how to study human-AI encounters.

This course starts from the premise that human encounters with technologies
based on artificial intelligence (AI) have become part of our everyday
lives. It aims to provide the course participants with a foundational
understanding of how human–AI interaction can be studied and investigated
as a form of situated, practical action. It invites the participants to
examine what makes these interactions recognizable, intelligible, and
actionable for the people involved. The course builds on approaches used in
ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), exploring how they can
be used to tackle the above themes.

See the attachment for more detailed information.

The course is a great opportunity for anyones who wants to deepen their
understanding of communication, agency, and interaction in the age of
mundane AI. (The course is intended for PhD researchers. We can accept max.
25 participants. If the number of registrations exceeds 25, priority will
first be given to Oulu-based PhD researchers and then to PhD researchers
from elsewhere. After that, participants are accepted on a “first come,
first served” basis.

Sign up for the course here:
https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/25702765695A4387

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Best wishes,
Pentti Haddington, Tiina Eilittä and Jakub Mlynar
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