Social Cognitive Systems – Research Group at CITEC, U Bielefeld

We explore how A.I. agents can be endowed with the social cooperative intelligence required for successful human-agent collaboration and assistance. Our research bridges A.I., Cognitive Science and Human-Agent/Robot Interaction: We study human cooperative and communicative behavior, develop computational cognitive and A.I.-based models of the underlying capabilities, and bring them to bear for socially assistive robots, conversational agents or collaborative agents that can be applied and tested in novel human-agent interaction scenarios.

New papers out this fall at CogSci, IVA, SemDIAL

July 17, 2024 July 17, 2024

Paper season continues! short and long papers accepted at CogSci, ACM IVA, and SemDial conferences. Topics: Inferring Partner Models for...

Join us at the “MultimodalXAI Workshop” at ICMI 2024

April 23, 2024 April 23, 2024

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

“Action-driven mentalizing in human-agent collaboration” — paper to be presented at CHI 2024 Workshop

April 23, 2024 April 23, 2024

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

Papers accepted at CogSci 2024

April 23, 2024 April 23, 2024

We will present our work at CogSci 2024 in Rotterdam (NL): One paper with Dominik as 1st author on “Revealing...

Teaching at the Interdisciplinary College (IK) 2024

March 7, 2024 March 7, 2024

Stefan is teaching a course on Social Artificial Intelligence for robust and efficient human-agent interaction at the Interdisciplinary College (IK)...

Best Poster Award at IEEE AIxVR 2024!

January 24, 2024 February 15, 2024

Our work “Minimal Latency Speech-Driven Gesture Generation for Continuous Interaction in Social XR” with Niklas as first author received the...

Student paper accepted as HRI 2024 Late Breaking Report

January 16, 2024 January 24, 2024

A paper by student author Lisa Bohnenkamp (together with Olga) got accepted at HRI 2004 as late breaking report. It...

New project within the CRC 1646 “Linguistic Creativity” to start in April 2024

December 20, 2023 February 15, 2024

A new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) on “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” funded by DFG is about to start in 2024....

Best paper award at ICMI 2023!

October 20, 2023 February 15, 2024

Our paper “AQ-GT: a temporally aligned and quantized GRU-Transformer for Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis” by Hendric Voss and Stefan Kopp won...

Two papers presented at SemDIAL 2023

August 24, 2023 August 24, 2023

We got two papers that were presented at the 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue “MariLogue”(https://mezzanine.um.si/en/conference/semdial-2023-marilogue/). Lina...

New Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition-enabled AI

August 2, 2023 August 2, 2023

A newly launched CoAI Joint Research Center brings together researchers from the universities of Bielefeld, Bremen, and Paderborn -- uniting their expertise in cognitive interaction technology, cognition-enabled robotics, and socially embedded intelligent systems.