Social Cognitive Systems – Research Group at CITEC, U Bielefeld

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.

Presenting a XAI reasoning support system for medical diagnosing

Can AI help improving the diagnostic reasoning of physicians to make them arrive at diagnoses that are better justifiable? We present “ASCODI”, an XAI-based interactive...

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”)...

Join us at the “Multimodal XAI Workshop” at ICMI 2024

Together with Hendrik Buschmeier and Teena Hassan we are organising the 1st workshop on “Multimodal Co-Construction of Explanations with XAI” (MultimodalXAI) at ACM ICMI 2024 in...

Paper on realtime mentalizing in human-agent collaboration at CHI 2024 Workshop

Florian’s paper “Towards Action-Driven Mentalizing in Realtime Human-Agent Collaboration” has been accepted at the 1st Workshop on “Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction” to be...

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...

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) 2024, held in Günne (upon...

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...

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 presents a study on the...

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. We are part of it...

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...