EMCAI Meeting – Friday 25 October – 12.30-14.00 CET

Dear EMCA/AI network members,

Welcome to our next meeting on October 25^th, 12.30-14.00 CET.

We will have a data session hosted by Lynn de Rijk, Wyke Stommel and Mike Huiskes on human-cat interaction. We are excited that this session will provide some empirical underpinning to our discussions, which often draw comparisons between interacting with machines and animals. Please find the abstract at the bottom of the email.

You can also already mark November 22^nd in your calendars, which will be the last session in this year. More details: https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/events/

Best wishes,

Hannah, Lynn and Saul

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Abstract

This data session, we will look at video-recordings made in a Dutch cat café. We are especially interested in ways humans and cats initiate doing (or not doing) something together, with one question raised by the data being: when can we even speak of (an) interaction? With so many of our network members involved in studying some form of human-machine interaction, we are furthermore interested to see how this data can be analyzed using that experience, for example, whether we can identify similar practices in how humans approach cats and how humans approach “social” machines.