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.

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

• Inferring Partner Models for Adaptive Explanation Generation (SemDial “TrentoLog”)
• Revealing the Cognitive Trajectories of Medical Diagnostic Reasoning (CogSci 2024)
• Sense of Control in Dynamic Multitasking and its Impact on Voluntary Task-Switching (CogSci 2024)
• Integrating Representational Gestures into Automatically Generated Embodied Explanations (IVA 2024)

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.