When working in a group, it is essential to understand each other’s viewpoints to increase group cohesion and meeting productivity. This can be challenging in teams: participants might be left misunderstood and the discussion could be going around in circles. To tackle this problem, previous research on group interactions has addressed topics such as dominance detection, group engagement, and group creativity.

Hoe maken we optimaal gebruik van de mogelijkheden van zelflerende kunstmatige intelligentie zonder de controle te verliezen? Volgens hoogleraar kunstmatige intelligentie Catholijn Jonker kan dit alleen als mens en machine beter samenwerken.

Our thoughts greatly determine how we feel and behave. Thus, gaining insight into certain thought patterns is an important part of preventing and treating depression. TU Delft researcher Franziska Burger investigated how AI can support people with symptoms of depression.

We're excited to announce that our research project "We Are in This Together: When an AI Agent Becomes Your Teammate" had its Kick-off this week. Our project recently received the 2022 SIOP Visionary Grant.

We are proud to see Dr. Jasper van der Waa publish this article for IT professionals. If you are interested in following up on this research, please reach out to either Jasper himself, Catholijn Jonker (TUD), Jurriaan van Diggelen (TNO), or Mark Neerincx (TUD / TNO).

To better understand smokers' needs for quitting with a virtual coach (i.e., a chatbot), Nele Albers, Dr. ir. Willem-Paul Brinkman and Prof. dr. Mark Neerincx conducted a study in which 671 smokers interacted with a text-based virtual coach in up to five conversational sessions spread over at least nine days. In each session, the virtual coach assigned people a new preparatory activity for quitting smoking or becoming more physically active, such as noting and ranking reasons for quitting smoking.

At the IC3K 2022 conference in Malta last October, Prof. dr. Catholijn Jonker gave a presentation about creating forms of human-AI intelligence.

With stratego, artificial intelligence is now winning against the top players. What does that mean? Artificial intelligence now masters the board game stratego better than top human players. The battle between humans and computers was already settled on the chessboard, but the game of war is much more difficult for artificial intelligence to understand.

Hoe kan een ervaring in Virtual Reality je echte leven veranderen? Kan VR bij mensen gedragsverandering of traumaverwerking tot stand brengen? Dr. ir. Willem-Paul Brinkman van de TU Delft legt het uit in dit college.