ICA Pre-Conference 2025

Title: Disrupt­ing and Consol­i­dat­ing Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion
Date: Thurs­day, June 12, 2025 (Full day, 8:30am‑5:00pm)
Venue: On-site at the ICA25 confer­ence venue

Build­ing on the spir­it that launched HMC—the drive to explore unchart­ed spaces where
human commu­ni­ca­tion with machines occurs—the 8th HMC Pre-Confer­ence aims to
facil­i­tate dialogues about the disrup­tive poten­tial and consol­i­dat­ing force of machines in
commu­ni­ca­tion research, while reflect­ing on how HMC itself is shaped by these dynam­ics.
For this pre-confer­ence, we define “disrup­tion” as signif­i­cant changes in under­stand­ing,
expe­ri­ence, or prac­tice, and “consol­i­da­tion” as unit­ing ideas into a new whole as well as
strength­en­ing or solid­i­fy­ing them.

ICA Pre-Conference 2023

The HMC Pre-Confer­ence took place on May 25, 2023, at the Sher­a­ton Hotel in Toron­to, preced­ing the annu­al ICA Meet­ing. The program can be found below. The response was over­whelm­ing, and we sincere­ly thank every­one for their intrigu­ing and inspir­ing contri­bu­tions. Follow­ing this Pre-Confer­ence, there will be a multi-author paper, co-writ­ten by the orga­niz­ers and partic­i­pants. We express our heart­felt grat­i­tude to the HMC Jour­nal, which has gener­ous­ly provid­ed a space for this collab­o­ra­tive writ­ing experiment.

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