Welcome to the Social Cognitive Systems Group
Research and work group of the Faculty of Technology and the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University.
We do research and teaching in computational Cognitive Science, A.I. and Human-Machine/Robot Interaction. Our goal is to imbue interactive systems such as assistive robots or virtual agents with the "Artificial Social Intelligence" that is needed for human-aware cooperative interaction in assisted living, education, health, or work domains. To that end we explore questions like: How can cognitive systems understand and cooperate with other agents? How can they learn to communicate efficiently and adaptively in dynamic interaction? How do humans perceive and interact with them?
We do research and teaching in computational Cognitive Science, A.I. and Human-Machine/Robot Interaction. Our goal is to imbue interactive systems such as assistive robots or virtual agents with the "Artificial Social Intelligence" that is needed for human-aware cooperative interaction in assisted living, education, health, or work domains. To that end we explore questions like: How can cognitive systems understand and cooperate with other agents? How can they learn to communicate efficiently and adaptively in dynamic interaction? How do humans perceive and interact with them?
Recent Activities
- 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2023)
- Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence at the Lorentz Center (Leiden), 2022
- 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human–Robot Interaction at INLG 2020
- Workshop on "Mindreading and social attunement in human-robot interaction" at ACM/IEEE HRI 2020
- Interdisciplinary workshop series "Kognitive Systeme"
- Mailing list on Intelligent Virtual Agents