Publications

Publications

Complete list on Google Scholar

2024:

  • S. Kahl, F. Löffler, M. Maciol, F. Ridder, M. Schmitz, J. Spanagel, J. Wienkamp, et al. “Evaluating the Impact of Advanced LLM Techniques on AI Lecture Tutors for a Robotics Course.” International Workshop on AI in Education and Educational Research, 149 to 160, 2024. DOI
  • S. Kahl, F. Löffler, M. Maciol, F. Ridder, M. Schmitz, J. Spanagel, J. Wienkamp, et al. “Enhancing AI Tutoring in Robotics Education: Evaluating the Effect of Retrieval Augmented Generation and Fine Tuning on Large Language Models.” Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group, 2024. PDF

2023:

  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Intertwining the Social and the Cognitive Loops: Socially Enactive Cognition for Human Compatible Interactive Systems.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378 (1870), 2023. DOI

2022:

  • J. Pöppel, S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Resonating Minds: Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference.” Cognitive Computation 14 (2), 581 to 601, 2022. DOI
  • S. Kahl, S. Wiese, N. Russwinkel, S. Kopp. “Towards autonomous artificial agents with an active self: modeling sense of control in situated action.” Cognitive Systems Research 72, 50 to 62, 2022. DOI
  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “The many faces of uncertainty in social interaction: a hierarchical model of metacognitive regulation in belief coordination.” Proceedings of the 15th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (KogWis 2022), Freiburg, 2022.

2020:

  • J. Pöppel, S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “The Role of Interagent Belief Resonance for Emergent Cooperation in Situated Problem Solving.” 2020.
  • S. Kahl. “Social Motorics: A Predictive Processing Model for Efficient Embodied Communication.” 2020. DOI

2019:

  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Modeling reciprocal belief coordination in social interaction based on free energy minimization.” Computational Cognition workshop (ComCo 2019), Osnabrück, 2019.
  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “How Active Inference Can Facilitate Belief Coordination in Multiagent Interaction.” European Conference for Cognitive Science (EuroCogSci 2019), Bochum, 2019.
  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Modeling the Integration of Active Inference and Sense of Agency for the Self vs. Other Distinction.” 2019.

2018:

  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “A Predictive Processing Model of Perception and Action for the Self vs. Other Distinction.” Frontiers in Psychology 9, 2421, 2018. DOI
  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Modeling nonverbal communicative signaling in predictive social motorics.” KogWis 2018: Computational Approaches to Cognitive Science, Darmstadt, 2018.

2017:

  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Distinguishing Minds in Interaction: Modeling the Self vs. Other Distinction in the Motor System.” 3rd workshop on Virtual Social Interaction, Bielefeld, 2017.
  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Self vs. Other Distinction in the Motor System During Social Interaction: A Computational Model.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 39, 2017. PDF
  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Self vs. Other Distinction in the Motor System During Social Interaction: A Computational Model Based on Predictive Processing.” 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), London, 2017. DOI

2016:

  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Communicative Signaling and the Self vs. Other Distinction: Next Steps for an Embodied Hierarchical Model of Dynamic Social Behavior and Cognition.” 13th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (KogWis 2016), Bremen, 2016.

2015:

  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Modeling a social brain for interactive agents: integrating mirroring and mentalizing.” Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015), 77 to 86, Delft, 2015. DOI
  • S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “Towards a Model of the Interplay of Mentalizing and Mirroring in Embodied Communication.” EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci 2015), Torino, 2015. PDF

2014:

  • K. Bergmann, S. Kahl, S. Kopp. “How is information distributed across speech and gesture? A cognitive modeling approach.” Cognitive Processing, Special Issue: Proceedings of KogWis 2014, 2014.

Talks, conferences and workshops

2022:

  • Talk on “The many faces of uncertainty in social interaction” at the KogWis2022, Freiburg, Germany.
  • Talk on “Social Motorics and emergent cooperation” on invitation by Prof. Dr. Michael Levin at Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
  • Participation in the Ernst Strüngmann Forum on “How Collaboration arises and why it fails” at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Talk on “Towards a computational active self for flexible control under uncertainty” on invitation by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nele Russwinkel at TU-Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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2017:

  • Talk on “Distinguishing minds in interaction: Modeling self vs. other distinction in the motor system” at the 3rd workshop on Virtual Social Interaction in Bielefeld, Germany.
  • Poster on “Self vs. Other Distinction in the Motor System During Social Interaction: A Computational Model Based on Predictive Processing” presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017) in London, UK. figshare
  • Talk on “SP05: Social Motorics” presented at the CITEC club in Bielefeld, Germany.

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Teaching

2022:

  • Winter semester: Tutorials (Übung) for “Grundlagen künstlicher Kognition”, four tutorials per week
  • Master’s thesis by Harsha Manjunath: Deep learning methods for Stress prediction using physiological signals
  • Bachelor’s thesis by Tobias Drees: Implementing Variational Inference for Probabilistic Reasoning

2021:

  • Bachelor’s thesis by Julia Kartelmeyer: Pepper lernt Kopfgesten
  • Bachelor’s thesis by Juan Saenz: Inference of and adaptation to action efficiency in cooperative environments using Pyro

2020:

  • Bachelor’s thesis by Alexander Stiebing: Numbafier: Simplifying the usage of Numba
  • Summer semester: Seminar on Social Cognitive Systems for Human Machine Cooperation (with Stefan Kopp)

2019:

  • Master’s thesis by Hendric Voß: Comparing Deep Learning models with a predictive processing model in recognition performance and online behaviour coordination

2017:

  • Summer semester: Seminar on The Social Brain (with Stefan Kopp)
  • Master’s thesis by Corinna Osterbrink: Influencing factors on motor interference in virtual reality

2016:  

  • Bachelor’s thesis by Astrid Assmann: Automatisiertes Feedback zum Gestenlesesystem von Bleidick mithilfe der Microsoft Kinect

2015:

2014:  

  • Summer semester: Seminar on Neuropsychologische Mechanismen sozialer Interaktion (with Farina Freigang)
  • Bachelor’s thesis by Katharina Suhre: Lesenlernen für Menschen mit kognitiven Einschränkungen mit Hilfe eines virtuellen Agenten: Eine Vergleichsstudie zwischen zwei Gestensystemen
  • Bachelor’s thesis by Günes Minareci: Semantic grammar handshake for IPAACA Windows Speech Recognizer