Aakhus, M. & Aldrich, A. (1994, February). Managing multiple goals and constraints in interactions: An examination of the “I wish I ...” compliment form. Presented at the Western Speech Communication  Association annual convention, San Jose, CA. (Top 4 Paper in Language and Social Interaction)  

Aakhus, M. (1995, June). Settlement processes versus rational discussion: An examination of argument management techniques in dispute mediation. Presented at the International Society for the Study of  Argumentation third international conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Aakhus, M.  (November, 1998).  “We just manage the process not the content”: An examination of the institutional resources in the field of process facilitation for constructing communication formats.  Presented at the National Communication Association national convention, New York, New York.  

Aakhus, M.  (May, 1999).  “Buy-In” practices: Some consequences of managing organizational decision-making with collaboration technology. Presented at the International Communication Association  Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.   

Aakhus, M. (February, 2000). Mediated interaction: Designing formats for political interaction. Presented at the  School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies conference on Media, Information, and  Politics: Research issues for the new millennium, New Brunswick, NJ.   

Aakhus, M. (June, 2000). Human communication and technology: Counter-acting the “conduit” logic in the  design of mediated interaction. Presented at the National Communication Association’s International  Conference on Rhetoric and Communication in the 21st Century, Jyväskyä, Finland. 

Aakhus, M. (November, 2000). Virtual dialectics: Support for critical reflection in online, experience-based learning communities. Presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention,  Seattle, WA. 

Katz, J., Aakhus, M., Kim, H., & Turner, M. (May, 2001). Romancing the Apparatgeist: The meaning of mobile communication technologies in a national and cross-cultural context. Presented at the Annual convention of the International Communication Association, Washington, D.C.

Aakhus, M. (July, 2001). Designing web-based interactional tools to support learning from experience.  Presented at the Sixth International Workshop on the Language Action Perspective on Communication  Modeling in conjunction with IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Organisational Semiotics, Montreal, CA. 

Aakhus, M., White, W., Bagley-Koyle, S., & Cockett, L. (November, 2001). Reflecting on communication at work and in professional life: Assessing the discourse of an on2line learning community. Presented at the  National Communication Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.