🗣️Have you check the social events of #IVA23? 🏰On the first day, the Conference Reception will happen in the historic town hall of Würzburg, the major himself is inviting. 🍷Afterwards, we recommend a glass of wine on the “Alte Mainbrücke”, an historic bridge across the Main.

The IVA Conference This will be a great social event and also an exciting conference on AI, embodied interaction and socially intelligent agents. Join us in Würzburg! The IVA Conference

Today, Stefan is going to RWTH Aachen to give a guest lecture on large language models and a colloq talk on cognitive systems as human-aware artificial interaction partners.

Paper acceptance news🙂: Three long papers accepted at ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents conference #IVA23

1/3: Amelie‘s paper on benefits and drawbacks of adaptivity in AI-generated explanations. 2/3: Niklas‘ piece on realtime gesture generation during online social XR. 3/3: Hendric‘s paper on augmenting DL-based co-speech gesture synthesis with form and meaning features. At IVA23!

The notifications of papers for #IVA23 are out! Are you planning to attend the conference? 📢 Registration is now open: iva.acm.org/2023/registrat…

Sonja is presenting work on robots that meet users' explanation needs, at HHAI2003 taking place now in Munich

Had a great time at IVA 2023 in beautiful Würzburg. And three excellent presentations by Amelie, Hendric and Niklas!

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Come join us! New job opportunity (full-time researcher/PhD student) to work on multimodal creativity in AI-based co-speech gesture generation in a Collaborative Research Center on Linguistic Creativity at Bielefeld U. scs.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/jobs

Congratulations to N. Krome and S. Kopp for winning the #IEEEAIXVR 2024 best poster award for their work “Minimal Latency Speech-Driven Gesture Generation for Continuous Interaction in Social XR.”

„Action-driven mentalizing in realtime human-agent collaboration“ — paper accepted at CHI 2024 Workshop on ToM in Human-AI interaction

Jan received the dissertation prize of the Bielefeld University Society for the best PhD thesis in Computer Science in 2023! 🥳

Had a very stimulating research group colloquium yesterday with guest speaker Julian Jara-Ettinger (Yale University) talking about the computational cognitive structure of human social intelligence.

Lina (both in real and as her virtual avatar) presented an AI-based adaptive explanation assistant at the "Praxistag" of the SAIL Research Network

Dominik Battefeld (TRR 318 Constructing Explainability Project C05) will present our research on how to reveal dynamic reasoning trajectories of medical experts in diagnostic decisions at #CogSci2024 in Rotterdam.

It’s official: the IVA has started! Enjoy it.

Having a great time at the poster session of IVA 24!

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Open Lab at our Family & Friends Day!! Drop by and play around with our demos — today from 2 pm in our lab at the CITEC building!! 🥳🤖