After 5 years of research, Hendric Voss defended his PhD thesis on generating semantically meaningful and contextually relevant gestures – Congratulations on a great, very...

Annika Österdiekhoff successfully defended her PhD thesis on modeling a sense of control in RL agents. Congratulations!! And many thanks to Verena Hafner (Humboldt U,...

Excited to share that we are part of a new MSCA Doctoral Network on "Embodied Multimodal Human Communication and Modeling" (EMHCAM) that just got accepted by the EU.

Our paper with Annika as first author is now out and publicly available in PLOS One.

Join us at the ZiF in Bielefeld for a workshop on "Multimodal creativity in speech and gesture production" on Dec 1st and 2nd.

Joint paper with colleagues from University of Würzburg received a Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2025)

Participating in the Wallenberg Advanced Scientific Forum 2025 to discuss with other experts how evaluation can be (and must) be a driver for generative AI.

Researchers from Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology and other disciplines met at the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial) in Bielefeld.

Amelie and Dominik gave oral presentations at the German Cognitive Science Conference (KogWis 2025), held in Bochum. Presenting work carried out in  TRR 318 (in...

Stefan gave a keynote at the Workshop on Interactive Task Learning in Human-Robot Co-Construction (ITL4HRI) at IEEE RO-MAN in Eindhoven (NL).