Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at IEEE ISMAR 2025

Our joint paper with colleagues from University of Würzburg on “The Impact of AI-Based Gesture Generation and Immersion on the Perception of Others and Interaction Quality in Social XR” received a Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2025) in Daejeon, South Korea.

Dialogue Researchers met at SemDial 2025 in Bielefeld

We organized, together with Hendrik Buschmeier and Sina Zarrieß, the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), this year called “Bialogue”. More than 50 researchers from Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology and other disciplines met at CITEC to discuss latest findings and advancements in conversational interaction, dialogue and language technology.

Presentations at German Cognitive Science Conference (KogWis 2025)

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 subproject A01 and C05, respectively), Amelie talked about using cognitive partner models for adaptive explanation generation, while Dominik described how the, possibly biased, diagnostic reasoning of medical experts can be modeled computationally.

Presenting fluid human-agent collaboration at HHAI 2025

Florian went to the Int. Conference on Hybrid Human-AI Interaction (HHAI 2025), held in Pisa (Italy) and presented work on collaborative AI agents that combine task intelligence (perception, planning, execution) with socio-cooperative intelligence (theory of mind, multi-agent collaboration, language-based communication) to enable fluid human-AI teams.