Research projects of Stefan Kopp

See recent projects in the Sociable Agents Group

Projects I am (or have been) directly involved in

Speech-Gesture Alignment
Studying and modeling of how multimodal utterances are orchestrated out of speech and gesture
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 673) "Alignment in Communication" - Project B1
Principal Investigator (2006-)
Project Webpage - Video

Adaptive Embodied Communication
Teaching sequences of actions by virtual humans and tapping the resulting mental representations in humans
Cluster of Excellence "Cognitive Interaction Technology", Bielefeld University
Co-Principal Investigator (2008-)
Project Webpage

Machine Learning on Multivariate Sequenced Interaction Data
Techniques for online machine learning of sequential data from highly dynamic interaction scenarios, e.g. for conversational frame identification or recognizing interaction patterns with info spaces.
Cluster of Excellence "Cognitive Interaction Technology", Bielefeld University
Co-Principal Investigator (2008-)

Conceptual Motorics
Generation and evaluation of expressive co-speech gesture with the humanoid robot ASIMO
CoR-Lab (Univ. Bielefeld, Honda Research Institute Europe)
Principal Investigator (2007-)
Project Webpage

Intelligent Virtual Humans - Max
Interactive virtual humans with a general cognitive architecture and capabilities of multimodal conversation
A.I. Group and Sociable Agents Group, Bielefeld University
Principal Investigator (2000-)
ACE project webpage

Conversational Musem Guide - AvatarMax
Max as part of the permanent exhibition and conversational guide to the Heinz-Nixdorf-MuseumsForum (Paderborn)
Principal Investigator (2004-)
Webpage Heinz-Nixdorf-MuseumsForum exhibition

Modeling Partners
Modeling how agents align with their interaction partners by creating models of them both on short-term and long-term time scales
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 673) "Alignment in Communication" - Project A1
Project member (2006-)
Project webpage

PASION
Psychologically Augmented Social Interaction Over Networks
EU FP6 Integrated Project
Co-Principal Investigator (2006-)
Project webpage

NUMACK
Northwestern University Multimedia Autonomous Conversational Kiosk
School of Communication, Northwestern University
Principal Investigator (2004)
Project webpage

CODY - COncept DYnamics
Dynamic knowledge representations for task-oriented situated communication
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 360) "Situated Artificial Communicators" - Project C1
Project member (1998-2005)
Project webpage

System Integration for Situated Communicators
Cognitive architectures for cooperative embodied communicators
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 360) "Situated Artificial Communicators" - Project D3
Project member (2002-2005)
Project webpage

Virtual Constructor
Intelligent environment for exploring assembly prototypes using combined direct manipulation and natural language
A.I. Group, Bielefeld University
Project member (1997-2001)
Project webpage


Projects I am (or have been) affiliated with

Interaction Space
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 673) "Alignment in Communication" - Project C1
Affiliated member (2006-)
Project webpage

Virtuelle Werkstatt
Multimodal human-computer interaction and immersive CAD systems for virtual prototyping based on Virtual Reality (VR)
DFG
Affiliated member (2001-2006)
Project webpage

DEIKON
Multimodal deixis in construction dialogues
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 360) "Situated Artificial Communicators" - Project B3
Affiliated member (2002-2005)
Project webpage