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
Call for submissions to ICA 2025 in Denver, CO
The Call for Papers for ICA 2025 is now available! To ensure a productive and smooth process, please be sure to follow our Interest Group’s submission guidelines. You can access it here: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HMC_CFP
Call for Participants — HMC Syllabus Project!
Artificial intelligence and robotics are rapidly becoming central to communication studies, and we’re expanding the conversation to the classroom. If you’re integrating human-machine communication (HMC) into your courses, we invite you to join the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project led by Andrea L. Guzman (Northern Illinois University) and Jason Archer (Michigan Technological University).
This project aims to:
- Understand how educators are conceptualizing and teaching HMC in higher education.
- Create a public repository of HMC syllabi to support teaching in this emerging field.
We’re looking for syllabi where HMC makes up at least 25% of the course content. Participation is voluntary, and you can choose whether your syllabus will be publicly accessible.
Be part of shaping the future of communication education!
Click here for the full announcement!
HMC at the ICA’s Annual Conference 2024, Gold Coast, Australia
Congratulations to all the TOP Paper authors at ICA 2024!
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.