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 task-specific capabilities, but lack essential abilities for interacting and cooperating together with other intelligent agents. We investigate how A.I. systems can be endowed with the social cooperative intelligence required for successful human-agent collaboration and assistance. This research bridges A.I., Cognitive Science and Human-Agent/Robot Interaction: We study human cooperation and communication, develop computational cognitive and A.I.-based models of the underlying capabilities, and bring these to bear in socially assistive robots, conversational agents or collaborative A.I. agents that can be employed and explored 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...