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The Social Artificial Intelligence (SAI) focus area at TAIGA is dedicated to framing Umeå University as a world-leading environment for designing human-centered and socially-aware AI systems.
Social AI is a focus area at TAIGA, Umeå University's centre for transdisciplinary AI. Our definition of SAI systems covers any AI-driven system equipped with social awareness capabilities. In practice, this involves two categories of AI systems:
Human-centered and socially aware AI systems make decisions relying on models of the others' mental states, of interaction frames and social contexts, such as emotional recognition. It is also systems reasoning about norms and relationships.
Human-like AI systems are systems that behave similarly to human social behaviour and human societies and are currently found in areas such as social simulations, virtual characters and artificial companions.
SAI relates to a broad spectrum of applicative fields (e.g. forestry management using social simulation), topical interests (e.g. how to adapt robot behavior depending on the social context), and scientific methodologies (e.g. automatically identification of emotion in speech).
TAIGA's Social AI research area is coordinated by Loïs Vanhée, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science. He teaches and conducts research in ethical and responsible AI, anxiety-sensitive planning, social simulation in crisis situations and responsible design pedagogy.
Learn more about specific opportunities within SAI by visiting: Social AI Focus Area (external website).
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