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I am an academic associate in the Human-Centered Computing Group at the Institute of Informatics, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (Sierre). My research focuses on the sociological aspects of digital technology and AI, a field I have been deeply involved in since joining HES-SO in 2021. I earned my PhD in 2016 from Charles University in Prague, where I conducted research on a large digital database of oral history interviews and worked as a coordinator at the Malach Center for Visual History. Following my PhD, I pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, working with the Interaction and Social Practices Research Group and with the Human-IST Institute. During this time, I expanded on my dissertation topics and led a comprehensive review of literature on video-mediated interaction. My work has also included studying classroom interactions involving digital technologies in Swiss and Czech schools, and participating in projects on human-centered architecture and AI. As part of my Fulbright scholarship at the Garfinkel Archive (Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA), I participated in exploring the early developments in sociological studies of human–AI interactions. Beginning in August 2025, I am serving a three-year term as a council member of the American Sociological Association's Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. In recent years, I have been involved in various AI-related projects, including the use of AI/ML-powered software platforms in medicine, and detailed video-based analyses of field trials of automated buses. My ongoing research continues to explore the intersection of technology and society, aiming to contribute to our understanding of human interactions with digital and AI technologies. |
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Research projects: "Beyond novelty: Everyday AI use in medical education and practice", SNSF Project Funding, 03/2026–02/2030 (PI: Jakub Mlynář). [LINK] "Remembering the future: A study of work in street trials of driverless buses", SNSF Spark, 03/2024–02/2025 (PI: Jakub Mlynář). [LINK] "TEaching RAdiomics (TERA): Shaping the future of medical education and practice with AI-based tools in cancer care", HES-SO Projets stratégiques, 11/2024–06/2025 (PI: Adrien Depeursinge). Recent publications: Jiří Kocián, Jakub Mlynář, Hryhorii Maliukov (2026). "'Life(-long) Storying': An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Multidimensional Embeddedness of Personal Narrative Production." In M.-A. Asevei, K. Králová (eds.), The Fluidity of Collective Memory: Time, Place, and Meaning-Making in Recalling the Past. Bloomsbury. Jakub Mlynář, (2026). "Something more than the here and now: Imagined futures". In M. Ruzzeddu, J. Šubrt, N. Maslowski (eds.), Society of the Future: A Social Science View of What We Assume and What We Can Expect. Springer Nature. Jakub Mlynář, Robin James Smith, Terry S.H. Au-Yeung, Erik Boström, Patrik Dahl, (2025), "“What the World is Made Up of”: The Chicago School’s Alternates and Laterals in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis", The American Sociologist (online first). [LINK] Jakub Mlynář, Yeji Rieser, (2025), "Transcribing encounters with the “wild”: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk", Qualitative Research (online first). [LINK] Jakub Mlynář, Lynn de Rijk, Andreas Liesenfeld, Wyke Stommel, Saul Albert, (2025), "AI in situated action: a scoping review of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies", AI & Society, vol. 40, pp. 1497–1527. [LINK] Clemens Eisenmann, Jakub Mlynář, Jason Turowetz, Anne Warfield Rawls, (2024), "“Machine Down”: making sense of human–computer interaction – Garfinkel’s research on ELIZA and LYRIC from 1967 to 1969 and its contemporary relevance", AI & Society, vol. 39, pp. 2715–2733. [LINK] Esther González-Martínez, Jakub Mlynář, (2024), "Audibility and Intelligibility of Talk in Passing-By Interactions: A Methodological Puzzle", Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, vol. 25, no. 3. [LINK] Jakub Mlynář, Adrien Depeursinge, John O. Prior, Roger Schaer, Alexandre Martroye de Joly, Florian Evéquoz, (2024), "Making sense of radiomics: insights on human–AI collaboration in medical interaction from an observational user study", Frontiers in Communication, vol. 8, pp. 1234987. [LINK] |
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