Welcome to the Social Cognitive Systems Group

Research group of the Faculty of Technology and the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University, headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kopp.

Mission

Modern A.I. systems excel at many tasks, but lack essential capabilities for interacting and cooperating with other intelligent being. We investigate how A.I. technology can be advanced to a level of social and cooperative intelligence required for successful human-agent collaboration or teamwork. Our research bridges A.I., Cognitive Science and Human-Agent/Robot Interaction: We study human cooperation and communication and develop A.I.-based models for corresponding behavioral and cognitive abilities, e.g., Theory of Mind, collaborative decision-making, nonverbal communication, or multimodal dialog. We apply those models in novel human-agent interaction scenarios involving socially assistive robots, conversational agents or collaborative A.I. agents .

News

New papers out at CogSci, ACM IVA and SemDIAL

Paper season continues! short and long papers accepted at CogSci, ACM IVA, and SemDial conferences. Topics: Inferring Partner Models for Adaptive Explanation Generation (SemDial “TrentoLog”)...

Papers accepted at CogSci 2024

We will present our work at CogSci 2024 in Rotterdam (NL): One paper with Dominik as 1st author on “Revealing the Dynamics of Medical Diagnostic...

Best Poster Award at IEEE AIxVR 2024!

Our work “Minimal Latency Speech-Driven Gesture Generation for Continuous Interaction in Social XR” with Niklas as first author received the Best Poster Award at the...