The Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion Inter­est Group supports and promotes schol­ar­ship regard­ing commu­ni­ca­tion between people and tech­nolo­gies designed to enact the role of commu­ni­ca­tors (i.e., arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI), robots, digi­tal assis­tants, smart and Inter­net of Things (IoT) devices). HMC encom­pass­es research with­in Human-Comput­er Inter­ac­tion (HCI), Human-Robot Inter­ac­tion (HRI), and Human-Agent Inter­ac­tion (HAI) and relat­ed areas of study focused on how people make sense of machines as commu­ni­ca­tors; the impli­ca­tions of people’s inter­ac­tions with commu­nica­tive tech­nol­o­gy for indi­vid­u­als, orga­ni­za­tions, and soci­ety; and the philo­soph­i­cal and crit­i­cal critique of the design of these tech­nolo­gies and their inte­gra­tion into daily life. HMC also includes the study of the discourse surround­ing commu­nica­tive tech­nolo­gies and people’s commu­ni­ca­tion with them. The HMC Inter­est Group is inclu­sive of the differ­ent theo­ret­i­cal and method­olog­i­cal approach­es in commu­ni­ca­tion research. 

News

Third Annu­al Meet the Lab Event! 

We are excit­ed to invite you to our 3rd online ‘Inter­na­tion­al Meet the Lab’ event, set for March 7, 2025. Join us for what promis­es to be a produc­tive exchange of ideas and perspectives.

Build­ing on last year’s success, this ‘Inter­na­tion­al Meet the Lab’ event invites schol­ars to present their labs, centers, lab groups, and to intro­duce their current/future HMC research. This time, we are priv­i­leged to welcome three estab­lished guest speak­ers to chat about their work!

Dr. Nicole Krämer: Found­ing member of Research Center Trust­wor­thy Data Science and Secu­ri­ty, Profes­sor for Social Psychol­o­gy — Media and Commu­ni­ca­tion, Univer­si­ty of Duisburg-Essen. 

Dr. Selma Šabanović: Direc­tor of the R‑House Lab for Human-Robot Inter­ac­tion, Profes­sor of Infor­mat­ics and Cogni­tive Science, Luddy School of Infor­mat­ics, Comput­ing, and Engi­neer­ing, Indi­ana Univer­si­ty Bloomington

Dr. Jing­wen Zhang: Direc­tor of the CHATR Lab, Asso­ciate Profes­sor, Depart­ment of Commu­ni­ca­tion, Univer­si­ty of Cali­for­nia, Davis. 

If time permits, after the event, some of the current HMC inter­est group lead­er­ship members will stay to see if any new/current members have ques­tions about this inter­est group. 

Links

MEMBERSHIP
https://www.icahdq.org/group/hmc

Join now! Offi­cial members of the group will receive infor­ma­tion about calls and events. Members also have voting rights and can run for office.

When renew­ing your ICA member­ship or join­ing ICa for the first time, select Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion from the list of Inter­est Groups and Divisions

SHARE INFORMATION
HMC AT ICA’S “THE LINK”
https://link.icahdq.org/thelinkhome

Connect­ing you with peers to share strate­gic advice, solve chal­lenges and devel­op new approach­es. Sign in, select the IG “Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion”, and start shar­ing.

HMC SCHOLARS E‑MAIL LIST
[email protected]

The list address­es inter­na­tion­al schol­ars inter­est­ed in human-machine commu­ni­ca­tion (HMC), or the study of commu­ni­ca­tion with a host of tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing HCI, HAI, and HRI. The purpose of this list is to share announce­ments rele­vant to the commu­ni­ty includ­ing CfPs for confer­ences and publications.

HMC JOURNAL
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc

Designed as an inter­na­tion­al, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary hub, Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion will publish high-impact schol­ar­ship exam­in­ing human-machine commu­ni­ca­tion from a breadth of method­olog­i­cal, theo­ret­i­cal, and philosophical/critical angles to bring further visi­bil­i­ty, legit­i­ma­cy, and commu­ni­ty to this newly emer­gent locus of schol­ar­ly and public inter­est. The jour­nal is the result of collec­tive orga­niz­ing around recent pre-confer­ences and work­shops at the Inter­na­tion­al Commu­ni­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (ICA), Asso­ci­a­tion of Inter­net Researchers (AoIR), and ACM/IEEE Inter­na­tion­al Confer­ence on Human-Robot Inter­ac­tion (HRI). It is clear there is tremen­dous schol­ar­ly ener­gy converg­ing around this topic matter.