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/
Our work “Minimal Latency Speech-Driven Gesture Generation for Continuous Interaction in Social XR” with Niklas as first author received the Best Poster Award at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR). We explore how to use AI-based nonverbal behavior synthesis for realtime and seamless “behavior augmentation” of avatars in Social VR.
A paper by student author Lisa Bohnenkamp (together with Olga) got accepted at HRI 2004 as late breaking report. It presents a study on the factors influencing how humans perceive information presented by a robot via gestures.
A new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) on “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” funded by DFG is about to start in 2024. We are part of it with a project on multimodal creativity in speech-gesture production. In collaboration with Joana Cholin (Psycholinguistics) we will investigate how humans and AI models can use gesture to accompany newly created linguistic constructions, when given communicative resources are not available or not adequate.
Our paper “AQ-GT: a temporally aligned and quantized GRU-Transformer for Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis” by Hendric Voss and Stefan Kopp won the Best Paper Award of the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) held in Paris.
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 presented her work on explanations that draw upon analogy-based reasoning processes. Josie and Amelie presented work from the A01 project of CRRC 318, on how to formally capture the semantic dialogue structure of game explanations.
The 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. CoAI strives to break new ground in the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence systems. Our primary objective is to equip AI systems – especially robots – with the ability to reason and communicate in ways that will let them coordinate their behavior with the interests and goals of their human partners, ultimately enabling them to accomplish novel joint tasks with, and for, humans.