Contributing to the workshop “Social Robots in the Public Sector”, organized by the RuhrBots project at HSPV NRW in Gelsenkirchen, with a talk on how social robots can act as socially intelligent partners and peers in early language learning by pre-school children.
Fabian has contributed to the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium on “Current and Future Varieties of Human-AI Collaboration” in San Francisco by presenting our work on studying dynamic, adaptive human-AI collaboration and teamwork in the game environment “Cooperative Cuisine” (extended version of “Overcooked!”).
We opened our lab and set up research demos and showcases — our Family & Friends Day took place on Jan 24th, and a lot of family member, friends, colleagues, and alumni showed up! The day was full of fun conversations, interesting interactions between humans and machines, and hearty getting-together moments. Visitors could interactively collaborate with AI agents in the Cooperative Cuisine environment, talk to the embodied conversational agent MAVERICK, learn about a board game through adaptive explanations generated by the SNAPE system, or feel like a physician working together with the AI model ASCODI to solve medical diagnosis problems. On top of it there was so much more, especially food, fun and socializing 🙂
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 reasoning support system for this, in a paper at the MAI-XAI Workshop at the ECAI 2024 conference. This is work done in Project C05 of the TRR 318 Constructing Explainability.
This project is part C02 of the CRC 1646 “Linguistic Creativity in Communication”. It investigates how speakers make creative use of their verbal and gestural resources in communicatively challenging situations. We combine psycholinguistics experiments with A.I.-based, computational cognitive modeling to develop a model of speech-gesture creativity and create simulations of robust, effective multimodal speakers.
Paper season continues! short and long papers accepted at CogSci, ACM IVA, and SemDial conferences. Topics:
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 Costa Rica.
We are delighted to invite your submissions to the workshop! Paper submission deadline: 3rd June 2024, 23:59 AOE
Please see the Call for Papers with the important dates and submission instructions here: https://lnkd.in/eywZbdKd
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 held at ACM CHI 2024 in Honolulu (US).
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 Reasoning as Step-by-Step Cognitive Process Trajectories”; a second one with Annika as lead author on “Sense of Control in Dynamic Multitasking and its Impact on Voluntary Task-Switching Behavior”.
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 Lake Möhne) in March 2024. Check out the program at https://interdisciplinary-college.org/.