Organizational Teams & Technology Research Society

Webinar - Ethics for Agentic Technology Ariel Greenberg Sep 26, 2025 12:00 PM EST

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We'll discuss how we can equip AI with the ethical reasoning needed for prosocial behavior.
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We are hiring a one-year postdoc! Position involves team science with AI from a social science perspective (e.g., psychology, org behavior, communication, HCI, human factors, business technology, related fields).

Best consideration is Aug. 29:
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Breaking the hybrid meeting divide!
Friday, May 16th, 12 PM EDT

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Join us to explore our ethnographic findings & see prototypes creating more equitable experiences!

#HybridWork #WorkplaceInnovation
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Reimagining leadership: Evolving prototypes in virtual work.
Dr. N. Sharon Hill presents her research findings.

Webinar on March 28, 2025 12 PM EDT
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Reminder to register - this Friday! Lindsay Larson of FIU is speaking on When AI Makes a Team. It's a webinar, come from anywhere. Registration link below.

When AI Makes The Team Webinar

Recent technological advances are shifting the role of AI from tool to teammate. This new form of teamwork raises the question: how can we apply our knowledge of human teams to enhance teamwork with AI?

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Reminder Webinar Friday, Oct, 18th 12 PM EST Register here
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AI Teaming In Prek-12 Classrooms

Excited to explore how AI in K-12 empowers teachers, enhances learning, and fosters inclusive, student-centered classrooms! #AIinEducation #EdTech #InclusiveTeaching

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Speaker Noel Kuriakos, UMD @nkuriakos.bsky.social

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Robots that Teach, Webinar Friday September 20th 12 pm EST. See link to register.

Robots that Teach
Brian Scassellati, Prof. Yale University

Friday, Sep 20, 12 PM EST
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Why socially assistive robotics are essential for development, learning, or therapy for individuals. Buildig supportive robots to assist autistic children.

(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: “Interactive Team Cognition for Humans and Machines” - UMD College of Information Studies Dr. Nancy J. Cooke shares her 30-year research journey on interactive team cognition

Missed our last OTTRS talk of the semester? It was recorded! Check out the inimitable Nancy Cooke here:
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Reminder of our last two public events of the semester!
* May 9 (Th), 12:30-1:30 pm (eastern), Marvin Grabowski (U Hamburg) on meetings in VR
* May 17 (Fri), 12-1 pm (eastern), Nancy Cooke (U Arizona) on interactive team cognition, human-machine
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series presents: Gamification for Team Science & Human-AI Teaming. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ... An online, multiplayer, gamified task platform was developed to elicit team processes and output detailed log data for both behaviors and outcomes. This task is currently being employed in two ongoing...

This Friday, Josh Strauss is speaking 12-1 pm via Zoom/virtually on "Gamification for Team Science & Human-AI Teaming." Join us!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series presents: Human-Agent Team Trust Dy... As human and machine collaboration become more common in this era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, some of these interactions are founded on principles of teamwork. In studying and enhancing the e...

OTTRS is back for the spring semester!

Our first speaker, Dr. Daniel Nguyen, on "Human-Agent Team Trust Dynamics" is noon - 1pm Jan. 26, Friday. Registration link, abstract, etc. below.

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Events - Organizational Teams and Technology Research Society UPCOMING EVENTS   PAST TALKS Multimodal Human-AI Interaction Snehesh Shrestha, PhD Candidate, The department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park Event Start Date: October 27, 202...

It's been such a chaotic semester, and we don't have many followers here on Bluesky yet, I missed posting our events this semester. But most are recorded! And we have a great lineup of speakers for next semester. Check us out:
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Our first OTTRS speaker of the year is Roni Reiter-Palmon on Sept. 22, 12-1pm eastern time. She's speaking on virtual team creativity & innovation. Register to join!
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More about us here: ottrs.ischool.umd.edu
Information about our speaker series here: https://ottrs.ischool.umd.edu/events/
Next talk is Sept. 22, noon to 1 pm eastern time, via Zoom.