Welcome to the Social Cognitive Systems Group
We investigate how to imbue A.I. systems with the social, cooperative intelligence needed for successful human-technology collaboration and assistance. Our research intersects A.I., Cognitive Science, and Human-Agent/Robot Interaction: We study human cooperative and communicative behavior, develop computational and psychologically inspired models of the underlying cognitive abilities, apply them in socially assistive robots, embodied conversational agents or 3D avatars, and test those in novel human-technology interaction scenarios.
News
Teaching at the Interdisciplinary College (IK) 2024
Stefan is teaching a course on Social Artificial Intelligence for robust and efficient human-agent interaction at the Interdisciplinary College (IK)...
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...
Student paper accepted as HRI 2024 Late Breaking Report
A paper by student author Lisa Bohnenkamp (together with Olga) got accepted at HRI 2004 as late breaking report. It...
New project within the CRC 1646 “Linguistic Creativity” to start in April 2024
A new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) on “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” funded by DFG is about to start in 2024....
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...
Two papers presented at SemDIAL 2023
We got two papers that were presented at the 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue “MariLogue”(https://mezzanine.um.si/en/conference/semdial-2023-marilogue/). Lina...
New Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition-enabled AI
A newly launched CoAI Joint Research Center brings together researchers from the universities of Bielefeld, Bremen, and Paderborn -- uniting their expertise in cognitive interaction technology, cognition-enabled robotics, and socially embedded intelligent systems.
Three long papers accepted for oral presentation at ACM IVA 2023
Three long papers accepted for oral presentation at ACM IVA 2023! 1/3: Amelie‘s paper on benefits and drawbacks of adaptivity...
Conference presentation at HHAI 2023
Sonja presented our work on robots that meet users’ explanation needs, at HHAI 2023 that took place in Munich in...