News & Events
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Welcome
Welcome to the SIM lab. We study social intelligence and behaviour in humans, story characters, and machines. Curious how these elements fit together? See our Projects and Publications pages, or get in touch! The lab kicked off on May 6, 2025, and is a in some respects a continuation of the Creative Intelligence Lab and…
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Why ‘SIM’?
Why are we called ‘SIM’ lab? We study social intelligence in human development and evolution, but also in story characters and non-human intelligent systems, including bots and AI-models. SIM stands for social intelligence modelling, which is reflected in our research using agent-based and classification models. But it also stands for stories in the mind, reflecting…
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Two talks @ AAAI ToM Workshop in Philadelphia
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a skill that is used in both human and AI cognition to infer the mental states of others, and to use these mental states to predict their behaviour in the world. Experts from all over the world joined an AAAI conference workshop in Philadelphia to discuss the benefits and challenges…