Welcome to the Interactive Intelligence Group

The Interactive Intelligence group aims to engineer empathy. To achieve this aim we combine research from different fields:
  • Agent-based reasoning to develop cognitive frameworks for varous domains of applications, focusing on robots, human-agent/robot teamwork, serious gaming, agent-based simulation and negotiation.
  • Computational Intelligence to study machines that can learn through interaction.
  • Perceptual Intelligence
  • User-centered design

In therapy with avatars


Combating phobias and psychotic disorders using virtual technology. This is what the work of TU Delft researcher Willem-Paul Brinkman involves. In the latest edition of Delft Outlook, TU Delft’s science magazine, Brinkman shows how this method can provide solutions for such problems as fear of flying and, in the longer term, possibly also for social disorders.

In therapy with avatars - NOS Journaal op 3, 3 mei 2011.

Workshop on "Methods to Account for Values in Human-Centered Computing" held in conjunction with CHI 2012 in Austin, Texas.


Christian Detweiler, Alina Pommeranz (both II group) and Luke Stark (New York University) are going to organize this workshop as a follow up to the workshop on Values in Design held in conjunction with Interact 2011.
The upcoming CHI'12 workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirements engineering, ethics and related fields. We will share knowledge and insights on methods to account for human values in information technology design. Through short presentations, group discussions and practical design group work, participants will collaborate on developing methodological frameworks for values in human-centered computing, and putting these methods into practice.

Website: http://ii.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign/


Sociale fobie? Praat eens met een avatar.
Nov. 09, 2011
Wie last heeft van een sociale fobie, kan nu oefenen door te praten met een ‘avatar’. Onderzoekers van de TU Delft creëerden een virtuele wereld, waarin u met deze virtuele personen situaties kunt oefenen die u eng vindt. Verslaggeefster Trudy van Rijswijk ging u voor en ontmoette een virtuele enge man. http://nos.nl/audio/308038-sociale-fobie-praat-eens-met-een-avatar.html

Blind date with an avatar: virtual reality helps treat social anxiety
Oct. 25, 2011
Patients who suffer from social anxiety will soon be able to use TU Delft’s new virtual reality system to learn how to cope with their condition. They can practice many different situations, such as asking for directions and going on a blind date, ‘safely’ on the computer. The avatars (virtual people) they meet respond like [...]

Willem-Paul Brinkman at TEDx Rotterdam
Oct. 17, 2011
WILLEM-PAUL BRINKMAN – virtual reality will lead the future Willem-Paul Brinkman is a researcher and examines the interaction between man and machine. But thatís not all. Brinkman is more than just a researcher delivering intricate studies, which are only interesting for his peers. He leads the way by developing so-called VRET-systems and combating phobias with [...]

Beveiligingsexplosie
Sep. 19, 2011
Door Maarten Keulemans Miljarden werden er na 9/11 uitgetrokken voor onderzoek naar antiterroristische maatregelen. Maar inmiddels gaat het weer gewoon over straatcriminelen en vragen critici zich af wat het terreuronderzoek eigenlijk heeft opgeleverd. Hoe de aanslagen in New York een complete veiligheidsindustrie tot leven kusten. Door Maarten Keulemans In een verlaten gang buiten zijn werkkamer, [...]

A smartphone for cops
May. 23, 2011
Can a smartphone application provide police officers with information that helps them operate more efficiently? Psychologist Jan Willem Streefkerk developed and tested a prototype. A four-month long field test involving 30 police officers in Groningen (2007) revealed that location alone was not a relevant basis for sifting information from the police database. When for example [...]

Anac 2011 winners
May. 23, 2011
Thijs van Krimpen, Daphne Looije and Siamak Hajizadeh, Computer Science students, have won the international ‘Automated Negotiating Agents Competition’ (ANAC) 2011 with their negotiation strategy ‘Hardheaded’: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/negotiation/index.php/ANAC_2011  

Bringing together Ethics and Technology Design
May. 03, 2011
Interact 2011 workshop A recent collaboration between Christian Detweiler and Alina Pommeranz, both Ph.D. students in the Man Machine Interaction group, is focussing on ethical aspects of design of new technologies. In working with stakeholder requirements or user needs in design, various design methods in requirements engineering (RE) and human computer interaction (HCI), in specific [...]

In therapy with avatars
Apr. 30, 2011
Combating phobias and psychotic disorders using virtual technology. This is what the work of TU Delft researcher Willem-Paul Brinkman involves. In the latest edition of Delft Outlook, TU Delft’s science magazine, Brinkman shows how this method can provide solutions for such problems as fear of flying and, in the longer term, possibly also for social [...]

Gezichtsuitdrukkingen herkennen
Apr. 21, 2011
Labyrint: Gezichtsuitdrukkingen herkennen 25 januari 2011 http://weblogs.vpro.nl/labyrint/tag/joost-broekens/

Emergency call centre emotion detector
Apr. 21, 2011
A system for emergency call centres that can assess a caller’s stress levels or emotional state, and hence the urgency of the call, could reduce the impact of any given crisis and improve the emergency response. A team in The Netherlands reports just such an automatic emotion-detecting system in this month’s International Journal of Intelligent [...]

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