Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology

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Cluster of Excellence CITEC
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founding 2007
Sponsorship state
place Bielefeld
management Helge Ritter (coordinator),

Anita Adamczyk (managing director)

Employee 250
Website www.cit-ec.de

The Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology ( CITEC for short ) is a cluster of excellence at Bielefeld University that was founded in November 2007 under the coordination of Helge Ritter . The interdisciplinary research at CITEC is bundled into four areas: movement intelligence, systems with attention, situated communication as well as memory and learning. CITEC is Germany's only cluster of excellence with a focus on robotics. The research institute works with strategic partners from industry, business and social and health care such as v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel , Miele , Bertelsmann and the Honda Research Institute Europe .

CITEC carries out cutting-edge research in the field of human-machine interaction under the label Interactive Intelligent Systems . CITEC is at the center of the strategic research focus "The Socio-Technical World: Interactive Intelligent Systems" at Bielefeld University and provides the organizational structure for this research focus. In this function, CITEC also offers a common roof for the working groups of the Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab).

Projects

CITEC bundles its interdisciplinary research in strategic project lines. The researchers rely on expertise from various disciplines. For example, up to 20 people work together on large projects. Information on all projects can be found on the CITEC homepage.

The Intelligent Coaching Room ICSPACE project is developing a system in a virtual training room that helps athletes and rehabilitation patients to practice and improve their motor skills. In the future, a virtual trainer will provide guidance on tai chi, yoga or aerobics.

In the FAMULA project, teams are working on developing a self-learning robot. He should become familiar with objects independently and explore them in order to understand their purpose. In addition, the robot will be able to express emotions with its face and can be perceived as a social counterpart. His hands are modeled on human hands in size, shape and mobility.

Scientists use the HECTOR walking robot to research what a robot needs to find its way around difficult-to-walk terrain without given navigation data. He should learn to “perceive” his environment and his own body precisely. The model for the design of its body and its ability to move is the stick insect.

The fourth major project - the robot service apartment - is an apartment with social skills. The apartment and the associated humanoid robot Floka are designed to support people in everyday activities and make their lives comfortable. The specialty: the apartment is not limited to individual services. Rather, it should learn to react flexibly to people's needs.

aims

The central research area is the development of technical systems that are intuitive and easy to use for humans. At CITEC, the scientific basis is researched to make machines more intelligent and more helpful. You should of course be able to interact with people and adapt to changing situations.

Graduate school

The CITEC graduate school with around 100 doctoral students offers a cross-faculty qualification in the interdisciplinary research field.

CITEC building

CITEC building on the north campus of Bielefeld University

The Cluster of Excellence has had its own research building on the North Campus of Bielefeld University since 2013. It has 5,300 square meters of main usable space, 1,265 square meters of which is for laboratories. In the central laboratory and the adjacent laboratories, researchers from the fields of computer science, biology, linguistics, mathematics, sports science and psychology can experiment together in the same place. 2.3 million euros were invested in equipping it with large scientific equipment. The total costs for the research building are 32 million euros. The Science Council put Bielefeld University's application for the research building in 2010 at number 1 in its list of recommendations for funding research buildings at universities. Construction began in January 2011. At the end of April 2013, Bielefeld University took over the building from Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb Nordrhein-Westfalen (BLB), which was responsible for the completion as the client.

Faculties and research groups

Five faculties of Bielefeld University are involved in CITEC: biology, linguistics and literary studies, mathematics, psychology and sports science as well as the technical faculty.

27 research groups work together at CITEC:

  • Active sensing
  • Affective neuropsychology
  • Ambient intelligence
  • Applied Computational Linguistics
  • Applied computer science
  • Applied social psychology and gender studies
  • Biological cybernetics
  • Biopsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer graphics and geometry processing
  • Experimental neurolinguistics
  • Clinical Linguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Robotics and Learning
  • Cognitive Systems and Social Interaction
  • Cognitronics and sensors
  • Machine learning
  • Neurobiology
  • Neuroinformatics
  • Neurocognition and Movement - Biomechanics
  • Neurocognitive Psychology
  • Neuromorphic Systems
  • Phonetics and Phonology
  • Semantic databases
  • Safety analysis and technology for human-machine interaction
  • Stochastic Analysis
  • Technical computer Science
  • Theoretical Computational Linguistics and Mathematical Linguistics
  • Behavioral ecology

literature

  • Helge Ritter, Gerhard Sagerer: Excellence Cluster "Cognitive Interaction Technology" - Cognition as a Basis for Natural Interaction with Technical Systems. In: "it - Information Technology" Vol. 51, H. 2, pp. 112-118.
  • Helge Ritter: Cognitive Interaction Technology. Goals and Perspectives of Excellence Cluster CITEC. In: "Artificial Intelligence" Vol. 24, H. 4, pp. 319-322, doi: 10.1007 / s13218-010-0063-x .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  5. ^ The Socio-Technical World: Interactive Intelligent Systems. Bielefeld University, accessed on July 11, 2018 .
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  9. ↑ https://www.cit-ec.de/en/content/graduate-school
  10. ↑ Scientists, avatars and robots are moving. Retrieved December 10, 2015 .
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