Interaction, communication, and mundane AI - Oulu 2026
| PhD course Oulu 2026 | |
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| Type | Training, Workshop, Seminar or talk |
| Categories (tags) | Uncategorized |
| Dates | 2026/04/16 - 2026/04/17 |
| Link | https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/25702765695A4387 |
| Address | University of Oulu |
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| Abstract due | |
| Submission deadline | 2026/03/20 |
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| Tweet | Step inside the everyday worlds of people making sense of AI as part of their interactions. This PhD course offers you a hands-on lens to unpack the ways in which AI systems are embedded into our ordinary social lives. |
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Interaction, communication, and mundane AI - Oulu 2026:
Details:
The University of Oulu Graduate School, COACT research community and the AIDA project organise a PhD course on how to study human-AI encounters.
This course starts from the premise that human encounters with technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) have become part of our everyday lives. It aims to provide the course participants with a foundational understanding of how human–AI interaction can be studied and investigated as a form of situated, practical action. It invites the participants to examine what makes these interactions recognizable, intelligible, and actionable for the people involved. The course builds on approaches used in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), exploring how they can be used to tackle the above themes. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of communication, agency, and interaction in the age of mundane AI.
The course is open for a multidisciplinary audience with a broad background and interest in social sciences and humanities. No preliminary knowledge of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis is required. The participants’ own engagement with naturalistic audiovisual materials is also not a prerequisite for the course.
The course is intended for PhD researchers. We can accept max. 25 participants. If the number of registrations exceeds 25, priority will first be given to Oulu-based PhD researchers and then to PhD researchers from elsewhere. After that, participants are accepted on a “first come, first served” basis.
Deadline for registration: 20 March 2026
Sign up for the course here: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/25702765695A4387
Best wishes, Pentti Haddington, Tiina Eilittä and Jakub Mlynář
