01 november 2022

Frans Oliehoek new Director ELLIS Delft Unit

Frans Oliehoek new Director ELLIS Delft Unit

After almost three years of guidance by Robert Babuska, Frans Oliehoek is taking over the lead of the ELLIS Delft Unit. He will be continued to be advised by Robert, as well as Jens Kober. We thank Robert for all his work and efforts.

04 oktober 2022

Drivers of partially automated vehicles are blamed for crashes that they cannot reasonably avoid

Drivers of partially automated vehicles are blamed for crashes that they cannot reasonably avoid

People seem to hold the human driver to be primarily responsible when their partially automated vehicle crashes. But is this reasonable? Researchers Niek Beckers, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Merijn Bruijnes, Catholijn Jonker & David Abbink from the AiTech initiative investigated the apparent mismatch between the public’s attribution of blame and finding from the human factors literature regarding human’s ability to remain vigilant in partially automated driving.

20 september 2022

Adding social awareness to conversational agents

Adding social awareness to conversational agents

Catharine Oertel from the Interactive Intelligence Group develops conversational agents that are socially aware, allowing them to engage with people in a much more human-like manner, even going as far as holding their own in a group setting.

20 september 2022

Keynote lecture at IC3K 2022

Keynote lecture at IC3K 2022

Catholijn Jonker will be giving a keynote lecture at the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery in October 2022.

05 juli 2022

Interactive Intelligence Group presents two papers at ICML'22

Interactive Intelligence Group presents two papers at ICML'22

We will be presenting 2 papers at ICML’22, one of the top-tier international conferences in machine learning.

27 juni 2022

Waar blijft de planologie van AI?

Waar blijft de planologie van AI?

Files, opstoppingen op sluiproutes waar de omgeving niet op is bedacht en waar omwonenden niet op zijn voorbereid, zijn aan de orde van de dag. Toch ligt de oorzaak niet per se bij het autogebruik dat in de afgelopen decennia is gestegen, maar eerder door routeplanners. Hoe veroorzaken zulke appjes dat? Dat is de schuld van onze insteek en mentaliteit als informatici. Sietze Kuilman van de Interactive Intelligence Group schreef een stuk voor Computable.

27 juni 2022

Best paper and poster at HHAI

Best paper and poster at HHAI

Our team led by Michiel van der Meer and Enrico Liscio won best paper award and best poster award for their works. Michiel presented HyEnA, a hybrid method for extracting arguments from opinions. Enrico presented Axies, a hybrid methodology for identifying context-specific values.