EXC 277: Cognitive Interaction Technology

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What do we need in order to enhance the command of complex technical systems and reach the ease and naturalness of human communication? How can we endow technical devices with the necessary cognitive abilities to support humans at a high level of semantic interaction, offering true flexibility by virtue of adaptivity, self-organisation and learning? In order to solve these questions, the cluster of excellence is focusing the efforts of computer scientists, psychologists, linguists and biologists on the goal of establishing cognitive interfaces that facilitate the use of complex technical systems by providing for a level of semantic interaction. This will combine interdisciplinary, basic and applied research and going beyond the classical confines of artificial intelligence and aiming at a thorough understanding of the processes and functional constituents of cognitive interaction, their replication in technical systems, and the development of evaluation methodologies and tool kits for such systems.