2027: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Theme: Center­ing the Human: Commu­ni­ca­tion in an Age of Uncer­tain­ty
Date: 3–7 June 2027

HMC Call for Papers: coming soon

2026: Cape Town, South Africa

Theme: Commu­ni­ca­tion and Inequal­i­ties in Context
Date: 4–8 June, 2028
HMC Call for Papers: Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion Call for Papers

During the 76th annu­al ICA confer­ence, HMC featured 29 research panels (17 high-densi­ty, 11 regu­lar paper sessions), 4 posters and 1 research esca­la­tor. We also held our annu­al busi­ness meet­ing and recep­tion during which we offi­cial­ly announced and cele­brat­ed the tran­si­tion from Inter­est Group to Division!

From the 378 submis­sions to HMC (203 papers, 151 extend­ed abstracts, 17 research esca­la­tors, 7 posters) from 22 coun­tries all over the globe, we were able to accept 171 submis­sions (31% accep­tance rate). We great­ly appre­ci­ate our 397 dedi­cat­ed review­ers, thanks to who the major­i­ty of submis­sions received 3 reviews (1,323 reviews in total). Taenyun Kim was our star reviewer.

Top Student PaperJiax­i­ang Xu, Jiayuan Yu, Zhenx­i­ang Zhu & Wanhui A. Zhou: “Under­stand­ing Dual Path­ways from AI Liter­a­cy to AI Reliance: A Two-Medi­a­tor Seri­al Medi­a­tion Model of Perceived Trans­paren­cy and Trust” (Hong Kong Baptist Univer­si­ty, Hong Kong)
Top Inno­v­a­tive PaperGift O. Agye­mang (Univer­si­ty of Ener­gy and Natur­al Resources, Ghana), Hao Chi (Inde­pen­dent Schol­ar, China), Lamech Muta­va (African Popu­la­tion and Health Research Centre, Kenya) & Charles R. Senteio (Rutgers Univer­si­ty, USA): “Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion for Mental Health: AI Chat­bots as Commu­nica­tive Agents in Stig­ma Reduc­tion Among African Youth”
Top Theo­ry PaperMike Yao (Univer­si­ty of Illi­nois at Urbana Cham­paign, USA), Jiyeon Chang (Univer­si­ty of Illi­nois at Urbana Cham­paign, USA) & Weizi Liu (Texas Chris­t­ian Univer­si­ty, USA): “Onto­log­i­cal Reflex­iv­i­ty in Human–AI Commu­ni­ca­tion Research: Toward an Inte­gra­tion Approach Based on Theo­ry-Ontol­ogy Alignment”
Top Method­ol­o­gy
Paper		Chang Wan (Zhejiang Univer­si­ty, China) & Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang (Univer­si­ty of South­ern Cali­for­nia, USA): “The Agency Dynam­ics in Human-AI Commu­ni­ca­tion: Under­stand­ing How Chat­bot Role and Task Outcome Influ­ence Self-Attribution”
Jake Liang AwardEsther Greuss­ing & Moni­ka Taddick­en: “The AI Divide in Every­day Commu­ni­ca­tion: Mapping Dispar­i­ties in Compe­tence and Engage­ment with Gener­a­tive AI” (TU Braun­schweig, Germany)

2025: Denver, USA

The 4th HMC on-site pres­ence at the main ICA Confer­ence featured 27 research panels (10 high-densi­ty sessions, 17 regu­lar paper sessions) as well as 4 posters and 2 co-spon­sored sessions in CAT.

The IG received 355 submis­sions from 29 coun­tries of which 210 were full papers, 140 extend­ed abstracts, and 5 posters. After peer review, 157 of all submis­sions were accept­ed (44% accep­tance rate). We thank our 363 dedi­cat­ed review­ers, who made sure that the major­i­ty of submis­sions received 3 reviews (1,021 reviews in total). Matthew Craig was our star reviewer.

Top Student PaperJunchen Yao & Yanbo Wang: “Non-use: A Perspec­tive to Under­stand Human-AI Inter­ac­tion — Taking AI Customer Service as a Case” (Beijing Normal University)
Top Facul­ty PapersShan Xu (Texas Tech Univer­si­ty), Zijian Gong (Texas Tech Univer­si­ty), Yue Li (Univer­si­ty of Kansas), Yani Zhao (Texas Tech Univer­si­ty), Ali Ahsan (Texas Tech Univer­si­ty): “Build­ing appro­pri­ate trust in arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence: Exam­in­ing a longi­tu­di­nal trust cali­bra­tion model and an inter­ven­tion“

Tian­qi Song, Yugin Tan, Zicheng Zhu, Yibin Feng & Yi-Chieh Lee: “Multi-Agents Are Social Groups: Inves­ti­gat­ing Social Influ­ence of Multi­ple Agents in Human-Agent Inter­ac­tions” (Nation­al Univer­si­ty of Singa­pore)

Tingt­ing Yang & Hyun­jin Kang: “Are We Ready for AI? A Latent Profile Analy­sis Based on AI-Readi­ness Among Singa­pore­ans” (Nanyang Tech­no­log­i­cal University)
Jake Liang AwardY. Antho­ny Chen (Univer­si­ty of Cali­for­nia, Irvine) & Samuel Hard­man Taylor (Univer­si­ty of Illi­nois Chica­go): “Queer Algo­rithms: A Longi­tu­di­nal Inves­ti­ga­tion of Human-Algo­rithm Inter­ac­tion in LGBTQ+ Youth Iden­ti­ty Formation”

2024: Gold Coast, Australia

For our 3rd on-site pres­ence at the main ICA Confer­ence we featured 15 research panels — 4 hybrid, 11 in-person. We also held our regu­lar HMC Busi­ness Meet­ing and HMC Welcome Session.

We received a total of 212 submis­sions inclu­sive of 123 full papers, 85 extend­ed abstracts, and 4 posters. After peer review, 65 full papers (53% accep­tance rate), 29 extend­ed abstracts (34% accep­tance rate), and 1 poster (25% accep­tance rate) were accept­ed for the conference.

Top Student PaperHeesoo Jang & Jaemin Cho: “An Assess­ment of Report­ed Bias­es and Harms of Large Language Models” (Univer­si­ty of North Caroli­na at Chapel Hill)
Top Facul­ty PapersLulu Peng, Yunling Ren & Zhan Xu: “The Gener­a­tional Algo­rith­mic Divide: A Compar­a­tive Approach to Inves­ti­gat­ing the Algo­rith­mic Frames of Older Adults in China” (Huazhong Univer­si­ty of Science and Tech­nol­o­gy; North­ern Arizona Univer­si­ty)

Hany­oung Kim, Weilu Zhang, Ja Kyung Seo, Jeong-Yeob Han, Hye Jin Yoon & Jiyoung Yeon: “Talk­ing with AI about Mental Health: The Role of Perceived Message Contin­gency and Outcome Rele­vant Involve­ment” (Univer­si­ty of Kentucky; Univer­si­ty of Geor­gia)

Jiemin Looi & LeeAnn Kahlor: “Explor­ing virtu­al influ­encers’ popu­lar­iza­tion of non-fungi­ble tokens: The roles of human-like­ness and influ­encer tier congru­ence” (Hong Kong Baptist Univer­si­ty; Univer­si­ty of Texas at Austin)

Yi Xu & Zili Chen: “Navi­gat­ing the Algo­rith­mic Terrain: Unrav­el­ing the Influ­ence of Liter­a­cy and Trans­paren­cy on User Engage­ment across four plat­forms” (Shang­hai Jiao Tong University)
Jake Liang Award*Chen Min, Qingyu Gao & Went­ing Yu: “When provid­ing sources goes wrong: explor­ing factors influ­enc­ing perceived cred­i­bil­i­ty of AIGC” (Huazhong Univer­si­ty of Science and Tech­nol­o­gy; Hong Kong Poly­tech­nic University)

* Select­ed from the extend­ed abstract submis­sions as no pre-confer­ence was held this year.

2023: Toronto, Canada

Our 2nd on-site pres­ence at the main ICA Confer­ence featured an expand­ed line­up of 15 research panels — 7 hybrid, 8 in-person — inclu­sive of 2 regu­lar paper sessions, 13 high-densi­ty sessions, and 1 poster. This year, we not only held our regu­lar HMC Busi­ness Meet­ing but also intro­duced an HMC Welcome Session and a Research Esca­la­tor Session. 

In terms of submis­sions, we were pleased to receive 83 full papers, 73 extend­ed abstracts, 1 poster, and 16 research esca­la­tors. Upon peer review, 61 full papers (73% accep­tance rate), 44 extend­ed abstracts (60% accep­tance rate), the single poster (100% accep­tance rate), and 8 research esca­la­tors (50% accep­tance rate) were accept­ed for the conference.

Top Student PaperJeehyun Jenny Lee: “Ethics of AI Rela­tions: Exam­in­ing the Poli­tics of AI Ethics Discourse and Gendered Human-AI rela­tions Through the Case Study of Chat­bot Lee Luda” (Univer­si­ty of Washington)
Top Facul­ty PaperJiemin Looi & Matthew S. East­in: “Too Arti­fi­cial for Adver­tis­ing? The Impli­ca­tions of Virtu­al Influ­encers’ Human Like­ness, Tier, and Insta­gram Veri­fi­ca­tion” (The Univer­si­ty of Texas at Austin)

2022: Paris, France

Our first on-site partic­i­pa­tion at the main ICA confer­ence with 9 research panels (2 hybrid), 3 high-densi­ty sessions, 4 poster sessions (3 virtu­al). We received an array of 64 papers, 55 extend­ed abstracts, and 3 posters. After peer review, 43 full papers (67% accep­tance rate), 28 extend­ed abstracts (51% accep­tance rate), and all 3 posters (100% accep­tance rate) were accept­ed for presen­ta­tion at the conference.

Top Student PaperYanyun Wang & Weizi Liu: “Which Recom­men­da­tion System Do You Trust the Most? Explor­ing the Impact of Perceived Anthro­po­mor­phism on Recom­men­da­tion System Trust, Choice Confi­dence, and Infor­ma­tion Disclosure”
Top Facul­ty PaperTanja V. Mess­ingschlager & Markus Appel: “Creative Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and Narra­tive Transportation”

2021: Virtual

Our second partic­i­pa­tion at the main ICA confer­ence contin­ued virtu­al, neces­si­tat­ed by ongo­ing Coro­n­avirus precau­tions. We contributed with 12 research panels. A total of 42 papers and 18 extend­ed abstracts were accept­ed for presen­ta­tion at the main conference.

Top Student PaperJason Archer, “Imag­in­ing Haptics and Robot­ic Surgi­cal Assis­tant Futures,”

2020: Virtual

Our first partic­i­pa­tion at the main ICA confer­ence start­ed virtu­al, due to Coro­na. Our pres­ence includ­ed nine research panels and five poster sessions. Out of 50 submit­ted papers, 26 extend­ed abstracts, and 4 posters, we were present­ing 35 papers (70% accep­tance rate), 16 extend­ed abstracts (61% accep­tance rate), and all 4 posters (100% accep­tance rate). 

Top Student PaperJoo-Wha Hong & Nathaniel M. Curran: “Assist­ing-Machine Era” to
“Substi­tut­ing-Machine Era”
Top Facul­ty PaperJihyun Kim, Kelly R. Merrill, & Chad Collins: “The Medi­at­ing Role of
Perceived Useful­ness in Rela­tion­ship AI and Task AI.”