Medical Assistance Systems

The Year 2025 was an intense and successful year for our team, marked by strong contributions at the intersection of co-constructive Social XAI, HRI, attention and emotion monitoring, and participatory design for inclusive intelligent medical assistance systems.

📚Research:

Multiple journal and conference publications (including ICDL and RO-MAN) addressing understanding and trust in XAI, robot architecture transparency, emotion and attention, and cognitive architectures.

🎤 Visibility & Exchange:

Participation in international computer science conferences (ICDL, RO-MAN, MAI-XAI,...), medical conferences (MZEB Congress, EAMHID), and local research events (Medical Day Bielefeld, Bi:Research Conference). We also co-organized the Workshop on Interactive Task Learning in Human-Robot Co-Construction (ITL4HRI) @ RO-MAN.

🚀 Projects & Focus Areas:

New projects (MECSKol, AMF XDeePedMYO, AMF GAZE-AID) were launched. The TRR 318 Constructing Explainability successfully entered its second funding phase, with the MAS group involved in the projects A03, A05, and Ö. In addition, we co-initiated a new focus area at Universität Bielefeld, AI*IM – Interactive Inclusive AI for People with Cognitive Disabilities, and are involved in the focus area Foundations and Implications of Human–AI Teamwork (FAITH).

🎓 Teaching & Early Career Research:

Interdisciplinary teaching in medicine and computer science, supervision of bachelor and master theses, and the successful completion of the dissertation “Negation in Adaptive Robotic Scaffolding: Monitoring Human Understanding and Attention in Human-Robot Explanatory Tasks”.

🙏 Thank you to all collaborators and partners for the excellent cooperation—we are looking forward to 2026!

Warm regards and best wishes for a successful year 2026.