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PRECONFERENCE: Communicating with Machines: Theory and Practice

Thu, May 24, 8:30 to 16:30, Hilton Prague, Floor: M, Tyrolka

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Communicating with Machines: Theory and Practice
ICA Pre-Conference

This pre-conference focuses on communication with and between humans and machines. These digital interlocutors have the potential to engage, alter, and disrupt “normal” events, practices, and phenomena. We invite scholars from any epistemological and methodological backgrounds to discuss their work related to Human-Machine Communication (HMC). This encompasses Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, and Human-Agent Interaction, in this full-day pre-conference. We seek to raise awareness of and further develop HMC research, theory and the scholarly community surrounding it. We welcome scholars from across ICA’s divisions in addition to scholars who have never attended ICA before.

Notification of acceptance: 12 February 2018

Preconference Focus: As artificial intelligence, robotics, and ICTs continue to develop and merge, we are increasingly interacting with digital interlocutors such as voice-based agents, robots, and social bots. We also are sending and receiving messages to and from wearable devices. We directly interact with the technologies surrounding us, and digital entities have been and continue to stand in for humans in everyday communication contexts. The recent surge of digital interlocutors into quotidian routines has been accompanied with questions – voiced by leading scientists as well as the average person – regarding the ramifications of these technologies and our interactions with them.

Possible topic areas for participant presentations include, but are not limited to, communicative practices between humans and digital interlocutors, the integration of artificial entities into private, professional, and political spaces, the incorporation of AI into journalism and other media industries, cultural discourse surrounding these technologies, relationship dynamics between humans and machines, reinterpretations and representations of humans as digital entities, and intercultural aspects of HMC.

Preconference format: Our goal is to provide a space for participants to present their research and engage in conversation with one another. We have adopted a two-tiered format in which some scholars will be invited to deliver a paper presentation while others will be invited to take part in a poster session.
Proposals: (750-1,000 words excluding references). Proposals should detail what the scholar plans to present and how it relates to the overall focus of the preconference on human-machine communication. We are interested in all forms of scholarship (theoretical, empirical, etc). Proposals should be submitted as an attachment to Patric Spence: HMC.preconference@gmail.com

Thursday, 24 May 2018; 8:30 - 16:00

**ON-SITE**

Cost of Registration & Attendance:
Faculty $75 USD/ Student $50

Deadline for submissions: 29 January 2018

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