Social, Cognitive and Affective AI (SCAAI)

An interdisciplinary research group of the Cognitive Assistants (COS) department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

We believe that satisfying social interaction with technical devices should follow the principles of Human-Human interaction. Within that context, we focus on modeling human emotions, communication of emotions, behavioral patterns, as well as social norms and values.

Research Topics

Affective Computing; (Mental) Healthcare; (Home) Care Robotics; eHealth; Virtual Reality; Sign Language Translation.

News

• MindBot Journal paper on Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  Our new journal paper with the title “Socially interactive industrial robots: a PAD model of flow for emotional co-regulation” investigates socially interactive robots for industrial assembly.By embodying a cobot with an avatar and employing real-time emotional modeling, we aim to cultivate Flow and mitigate negative experiences like boredom. Our findings suggest a path towards more… Read more: MindBot Journal paper on Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• We organise the BLEMORE workshop @ ACII’25
  BLEMORE @ ACII’25 — https://blemore.github.io/workshop/ In collaboration with researchers from Uppsala University and Georgian Technical University, the SCAAI group is organising BLEMORE – the workshop and competition on multimodal blended emotion recognition. It will be held at the 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2025) in Canberra, Australia. BLEMORE aims to… Read more: We organise the BLEMORE workshop @ ACII’25
• CONFIDENCE Kick-off
  60% of all children experience bullying or social exclusion as they grow up, with long-term consequences for their mental and physical health.   Today we are pleased to begin our work in the project “CONFIDENCE – Mobile interactive experiential self-esteem training for the treatment of bullying in children”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education… Read more: CONFIDENCE Kick-off
• Call for papers: SLTAT 2025, 9th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology
  SLTAT 2025 Home page: https://sltat2025.github.io We (SCAAI) are proudly organising the next SLTAT 2025: 9th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology CALL FOR PAPERS!!! We are looking for quality submissions for advancing research on technology support for sign language. Check the SLTAT 2025 Home page: https://lnkd.in/dUBCEkhG The workshop will take place within the… Read more: Call for papers: SLTAT 2025, 9th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology
• MindBot presentation at the 1st German Robotics Conference
  Today, we presented the results of the MindBot project at the first German Robotics Conference (GRC2025) conference in Nuremberg, Germany. Our poster+video presentation with the title “The MindBot project: overview and achievements” presents the outcome of the 3-year EU MindBot project. Abstract: This abstract gives an overview of the structure and the achievements of the… Read more: MindBot presentation at the 1st German Robotics Conference