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SUMMARY:EMCAI Meeting – Friday 28 November – 12.30-14.00 CET
DESCRIPTION:This will be another reading session\, this time addressing the topic of trust which came up last meeting. \nOur main reading will be: \nWatson\, R. (2009). Constitutive practices and Garfinkel’s notion of trust: Revisited. Journal of Classical Sociology\, 9(4)\, 475-499. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1468795X09344453  \nWatson’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). \nIt 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.  \nWe 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: \nIvarsson\, 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
URL:https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/event/emcai-meeting-friday-28-november-12-30-14-00-cet/
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SUMMARY:EMCAI Meeting – Friday 27 February – 12.30-14.00 CET
DESCRIPTION:We will have three show-and-tells this meeting.\n\n\nGisela Reyes Cruz and Stuart Reeves: On Being Guided: How People Follow a Robot-Guided Tour\n\n\nAli Reza Majlesi: Affective stance in HRI\n\n\nYulia Kukles\, Selim El Madani\, and Philippe Sormani: Probing the Prompt: A Reflexive Explication of ChatGPT on Stage\, in and as its Live Demo Properties\n\n\n\nPlease find the abstracts of these show-and-tells below.\n\nOn Being Guided: How People Follow a Robot-Guided Tour\n\nWe will present our recent HRI paper on following robots. We’d appreciate feedback regarding the presentation for the HRI conference\, as well as insights on preliminary ideas for future research related to this topic.\n \nPaper abstract: “Being guided from one place to another is a pervasive social practice that connects deeply with socially aware robot navigation. We examine how robots come to feature within the organisation of these established and well-worn leading and following practices\, practices which are assembled `in place’ by the efforts of individuals and groups that are using robot guides. We deployed mobile robots in a museum context to provide additional information for visitors around multiple sequential exhibits. Our ethnomethodological video-based analysis of interaction centres on how the social organisation of being guided was practically managed by visitors: in initiation of following\, doing following\, and finding a place to stop. Our study shows how following and being led is more than just a mechanical activity\, and describe the implications for socially aware robot navigation in addressing novel technical challenges that a shift in understanding following-leading phenomena presents.”\n\n\nAffective stance in HRI\nIn this show-and-tell session\, I present an excerpt of a video data from a study examining interactions between a social robot called Furhat with students in a Swedish high school. During the activity\, the robot introduces a set of electric circuits with varied lamp configurations and invite students to judge which configuration is correct or incorrect. At certain moment\, the robot challenges the students’ responses. The analysis focuses on how students display affect in their responsive turns. \n\nProbing the Prompt: A Reflexive Explication of ChatGPT on Stage\, in and as its Live Demo Properties\nOn May 13th\, 2024\, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT 4o to the world. To boast its new features and capabilities\, the tech giant chose\, for the very first time\, the format of a live online demo staged in front of an audience and streamed on the company’s official Youtube channel. The encounter was devoted to demonstrating the vision and voice capabilities of the application for the example of solving a linear equation. The presenter wrote down “3x + 1 = 4?” on a sheet of paper\, showed it to his mobile phone’s video camera\, and requested ChatGPT-4o to assist in its solution\, which it manifestly did. Throughout the live demo and for its plausible success\, ordinary resources from everyday interaction were drawn upon\, including categorial and sequential resources from teacher-student interaction\, as well as an ostensibly basic math equation. Just how were these resources drawn upon? To answer this question\, we will offer a practice-based video analysis. In particular\, we will draw on a technical reenactment ad hoc to respecify chatbot interaction analysis\, thereby making explicit how embodied methods and equipment (in addition to quasi-conversational ones) contributed to staging ChatGPT-4o as a “helpful” “math teacher”.
URL:https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/event/emcai-meeting-friday-27-february-12-30-14-00-cet/
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SUMMARY:EMCAI Meeting – Friday 24 April – 12.30-14.00 CET
DESCRIPTION:This will be a discussion session\, where we would like to explore/poke at our tendency to look at moments where trouble arises or where some ‘breaching’ occurs in interaction with technology. \nTo this end\, we would like to flip the script and ask: what if we were to look at moments in our data where human-machine interaction worked ‘successfully’?\n\nAside from a discussion guided by some (provoking) questions – such as what is ’success’ in HMI and what practices\, materiality and tech affordances allow that ’success’ – we would like to make it more concrete by looking at one or two snippets of data where  technology ‘worked’.\n\nWe therefore invite you to please reach out if you might have such a snippet in your own data (lynn.derijk@ru.nl).\nBringing a snippet does not require a defense of whether it actually works – having the sense it ‘works’ makes it interesting enough regardless of what we exactly consider working ‘successfully’.\n\nTo also stimulate the discussion from the angle of research output\, we include two short empirical readings that might be interesting to take a (rough) look at\, since these articles arguably discuss moments of ‘success’ or provide us with ways to think about what ‘success’ might look like:\n​​Hazel\, S.\, Brandt\, A.\, He\, Y. V.\, Lim\, E.\, Joselowitz\, J.\, & Ellis\, Z. (2026\, March). Empathy as interactional accomplishment in clinical interactions with a conversational agent. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing 2026) (pp. 284-290).\n\nRodil\, K.\, Elisabeth Larsen\, C.\, Caesar Faelled\, C.\, Færch Skov\, E.\, Gustafsen\, T.\, Krummheuer\, A.\, & Rehm\, M. (2020\, October). Spending time: co-designing a personalized calendar at the care center. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences\, Shaping Society (pp. 1-11).
URL:https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/event/emcai-meeting-friday-24-april-12-30-14-00-cet/
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SUMMARY:EMCAI Meeting – Friday 22 May – 12.30-14.00 CET
DESCRIPTION:This will be a discussion session dedicated to re-enactment as a research strategy\,  building on what came up during our meeting in February 2026.  \nRe-enactment sits at an uneasy intersection between EM and CA traditions. For EM scholars\, the power of EM lies in creating breaching conditions or tutorial problems (Garfinkel 1967\, 2002) that make the invisible machinery of social order visible: a logic that opens the door to staged or reconstructed situations. For CA\, research is grounded in the analysis of naturally occurring talk and interaction\, where any departure from “the real thing” risks distorting the very phenomena under study. This tension is what makes re-enactment a productive but sometimes divisive topic across the two traditions. The ambition is to figure out what makes re-enactment as research strategy valuable or thorny by considering several questions (with some re-enactment data to support):  \n\nWhat is re-enactment exactly?\nHow to do it?\nWhere (not) to use it and why?\nWhat is your own experience with re-enactment? \n\nWe hope to have a lively discussion\, wherein everyone feels free to support or challenge this research strategy. \nTo prepare for the session we suggest the following reading:  \nSormani\, Philippe (2020): « Re-enactment as a research strategy »\, In: Borgdorff\, H.\, Pinch\, T. and Peters\, P. (Eds.)\, Dialogues between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies. London & New York\, pp. 184-200.
URL:https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/event/emcai-meeting-friday-22-may-12-30-14-00-cet/
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SUMMARY:EMCAI Meeting – Friday 2 October – 12.30-14.00 CET
DESCRIPTION:This will be a show-and-tell session. \nFurther details and the meeting link will be shared via the mailing list closer to the event. \nTo sign up to the mailing list\, please click the “Join the network” button on our homepage.
URL:https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/event/emcai-meeting-friday-2-october-12-30-14-00-cet/
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SUMMARY:EMCAI Meeting – Friday 6 November – 12.30-14.00 CET
DESCRIPTION:Further details and the meeting link will be shared via the mailing list closer to the event. \nTo sign up to the mailing list\, please click the “Join the network” button on our homepage.
URL:https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/event/emcai-meeting-friday-6-november-12-30-14-00-cet/
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SUMMARY:EMCAI Meeting – Friday 4 December – 12.30-14.00 CET
DESCRIPTION:Further details and the meeting link will be shared via the mailing list closer to the event. \nTo sign up to the mailing list\, please click the “Join the network” button on our homepage.
URL:https://emcai.conversationanalysis.org/event/emcai-meeting-friday-4-december-12-30-14-00-cet/
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