Communication, agents and social systems

Our research agenda

When an AI agent answers, proposes or negotiates, it stops being a channel and becomes a participant. This territory studies that participation.

For a century, communication theory has described exchanges between people mediated by techniques. Conversational agents and multi-agent systems alter that description: they produce utterances, hold turns, and coordinate actions. Here we ask which concepts — interlocution, context, agreement — remain useful and which need revision, and how to observe coordination between human and nonhuman participants empirically.

Proposed agenda for the lab's initial stage.