Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence

The vision of the CITEC scientists are technical systems that can be operated easily and intuitively, ranging from everyday objects to fully-blown humanoid robots. The future technology should adapt itself to its human users instead of forcing us humans to adjust to the often cumbersome operation of the current equipment.

Just as every human being adapts his speech and reactions automatically to his addressee in order to be understood, technological systems should adjust their behavior to their interaction partner.

Natural interaction with humans and the flexibility to adapt to changing conditions are the prerequisite - the investigation of the basics of Cognitive Interaction Technology is the necessary pioneering work.
This includes the search for the fundamental architectural principles of cognitive human-machine interaction.