This group hosts open source packages developed by the CITEC (Cognitive Interaction Technology, Center of Excellence) Bielefeld (http://www.cit-ec.org)

Cognitive Interaction Technology: The Mission

Cognitive Interaction Technology is a new field aiming at a thorough understanding of the processes and functional constituents of cognitive interaction in order to replicate them in technical systems, including the development of evaluation methodologies and toolkits for such systems.

It is an interdisciplinary field requiring the efforts of computer scientists, engineers, linguists, biologists, physicists psychologists and others to create advances along three interrelated key dimensions:

Technology:
To shape the command of technical systems into the ease and naturalness of human communication,

Science:
To enable new insights into the principles and mechanisms of cognitive interaction,

Bridge Cultures:
To connect engineering and humanity cultures for a better integration of technology into our daily lives.

The Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) is devoted to this compound mission. It was founded at Bielefeld University in November 2007 by a grant of the DFG in the context of the German Excellence Initiative.