Mentoring on Collaborative Research: November 13, 2025

This HMC Mentor­ing Event invites schol­ars to share their expe­ri­ences with collab­o­ra­tive research, provide tips and tricks for form­ing and main­tain­ing research collab­o­ra­tions, and to offer network­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties with the glob­al HMC commu­ni­ty to get start­ed with collab­o­ra­tive research projects. We are excit­ed to welcome four distin­guished guest speak­ers to chat about their work!

  • Dr. Cameron Pier­cy: Asso­ciate Profes­sor at the Univer­si­ty of Kansas (USA) and Direc­tor of the Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion lab
  • Dr. Esther Greuss­ing: Research Asso­ciate at the Tech­ni­cal Univer­si­ty Braun­schweig (Germany)
  • Dr. Jindong Leo-Liu: Assis­tant Profes­sor in New Media and Social Media at The Educa­tion Univer­si­ty of Hong Kong
  • Dr. Andreas Hepp: Profes­sor of Media and Commu­ni­ca­tions, Head of ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Commu­ni­ca­tion and Infor­ma­tion Research, Univer­si­ty of Bremen (Germany), and spokesper­son of the Research Unit 5656 “Commu­nica­tive AI: The automa­tion of Soci­etal Communication”

Event details

  • Date: Novem­ber 13, 2025
  • Time: 2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (GMT +0)
  • Regis­tra­tion: required (Click here to regis­ter)
    • Or copy it into your brows­er: https://uark.zoom.us/meeting/register/XM6MRrdrTGmNv7EKWrLB5w
    • You will receive a Zoom link to the event once you register.
  • Fee: None

Time Zones

  • 6:00 AM — 7:30 AM PST (Cali­for­nia)
  • 9:00 AM — 10:30 AM EST (New York)
  • 3:00 PM — 4:30 PM CET (Germany)
  • 10:00 PM — 11:30 PM SGT/CST (Singapore/Beijing)

To find the local time in your area you may use online time zone convert­ers like Green­wich Mean Time Convert­er.

Past Events

‘International Meet the Lab’ Event: March 7, 2025 

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. 

You will receive a Zoom link to the event once you register. 

We look forward to seeing you at the event! 

If you encounter any ques­tions about this event or regis­tra­tion, please feel free to reach out to Kun Xu via kun.xu@ufl.edu. 

Early Career Scholar Event: Conference Presentation Tips: April 2, 2025

Are you prepar­ing for ICA 2025 and want to improve your confer­ence presen­ta­tion skills? Whether it’s your first time present­ing or you’re look­ing to refine your deliv­ery, we invite you to join our inter­ac­tive webinar:

Date & Time: Wednes­day, April 2nd, 2025
8:00 AM (Pacif­ic) | 11:00 AM (East­ern) | 5:00 PM (Central Euro­pean Time)

Please regis­ter here.

Or copy this link into your brows­er: https://uark.zoom.us/meeting/register/cIg7QkXcTTC-26wlkm4reg

Orga­nized by the Student and Early Career Repre­sen­ta­tives of four ICA divi­sions – Chil­dren, Adoles­cents, and Media (Amber van der Wal), Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion (Marco Dehn­ert), Inter­per­son­al Commu­ni­ca­tion (Jean­nine Teichert), and Mobile Commu­ni­ca­tion (Morgan Quinn Ross) – this one-hour session will offer prac­ti­cal insights from expe­ri­enced schol­ars on how to deliv­er engag­ing, impact­ful, and well-struc­tured presen­ta­tions, followed by an oppor­tu­ni­ty to ask your own ques­tions. Our goal is to help you navi­gate ICA with confi­dence and make the most of your presen­ta­tion opportunities.

Speak­ers: Jesse Fox (The Ohio State Univer­si­ty, USA)； Ernesto de León (Univer­si­ty of Amster­dam, Nether­lands)； Chris­t­ian Pent­zold (Univer­si­ty of Leipzig, Germany)

We look forward to seeing you there!