Welcome to the Social Cognitive Systems Group

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

Mission

We explore how A.I. agents can be endowed with the social cooperative intelligence required for successful human-agent collaboration and assistance. Our research bridges A.I., Cognitive Science and Human-Agent/Robot Interaction: We study human cooperative and communicative behavior, develop computational cognitive and A.I.-based models of the underlying capabilities, and bring them to bear for socially assistive robots, conversational agents or collaborative agents that can be applied and tested in novel human-agent interaction scenarios.

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...

Best paper award at ICMI 2023!

Our paper “AQ-GT: a temporally aligned and quantized GRU-Transformer for Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis” by Hendric Voss and Stefan Kopp won the Best Paper Award of...