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

Paper on fluid human-agent collaboration out now!

Our comprehensive paper on how to make human-agent collaboration in dynamically changing environments sufficiently flexible and adaptive (i.e., fluid) just got published in Frontiers in Robotics...

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”)...