Social Cognitive Systems Group

Mission

Modern A.I. systems excel at many tasks, but lack essential capabilities for interacting and cooperating with other intelligent beings. We investigate how A.I. systems can show the level of social, interactive and cooperative behavior that is required for successful human-agent collaboration and teamwork. This research brings together A.I., Cognitive Science and Human-Agent/Robot Interaction: We study human cooperation and communication to develop A.I. methods and models for crucial behavioral or cognitive abilities, including Theory of Mind, collaborative decision-making, nonverbal communication or multimodal dialog. Based on these models we develop socially assistive robots, embodied conversational agents or collaborative A.I. agents and apply them in novel human-agent interaction scenarios in medical, educational or workplace contexts.