Aakhus, M. (November, 1999). Technology design and communication professionals. Presented at the  National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. 

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. (April, 2000). The architecture of the classroom of the future: Educating the communication professional. Presented at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA. 

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. 

Aakhus, M. (November, 2000). Activity in mediated communication. Presented at the National Communication  Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA.  

Aakhus, M. (November, 2000). Info-mediaries and the privatization of the public sphere. Presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Seattle, PA.  

Aakhus, M. (April, 2001). Understanding ICTs in everyday life: The role of personal communication and information infrastructures. Presented at Machines That Become Us, an international conference on communication and technology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.  

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.