Add THA as academic research group

Author: moschmdt

docs/home/OtherAcademicInstitutions.md

@@ -21,22 +21,20 @@ and planning tasks.
 cognitive science. Our projects are focused on models that learn, ranging from
 how to provide models access to interfaces to analyzing the effects of caffeine
 on cognition to determining how children develop through the modeling of their
-development.  Other projects include the development of the Psychological Soar
+development. Other projects include the development of the Psychological Soar
 Tutorial and the Soar FAQ. For more information contact frank.ritter at psu.edu.
 
-
-[University of Portland](https://www.up.edu/directory/Andrew-Nuxoll.html): Research is in
-improving the effectiveness of the episodic memory system. Much of the work is
-done external to Soar while honoring architectural requirements of Soar. Recent
-projects include: a survey of forgetting mechanisms, using memories to build
-plans, using sequences of episodes to overcome state aliasing and using
-experience to discover the relative importance of various WMEs that comprise an
-agent's episodes. Many of the insights from this research have been embodied in
-an advanced episodic memory system called Ziggurat. Throughout this process, the
-hardest part of creating an effective episodic memory system remains the same:
-creating an effective, domain-independent algorithm to select the best memory
-from a given cue.
-
+[University of Portland](https://www.up.edu/directory/Andrew-Nuxoll.html):
+Research is in improving the effectiveness of the episodic memory system. Much
+of the work is done external to Soar while honoring architectural requirements
+of Soar. Recent projects include: a survey of forgetting mechanisms, using
+memories to build plans, using sequences of episodes to overcome state aliasing
+and using experience to discover the relative importance of various WMEs that
+comprise an agent's episodes. Many of the insights from this research have been
+embodied in an advanced episodic memory system called Ziggurat. Throughout this
+process, the hardest part of creating an effective episodic memory system
+remains the same: creating an effective, domain-independent algorithm to select
+the best memory from a given cue.
 
 [Pace University](http://csis.pace.edu/robotlab/projects.html): An Intelligent
 Soar Assistant for a Virtual World Abe Guerra has built an assistant for IBM's
@@ -48,21 +46,41 @@ There is also a movie of his agent navigating and a movie of his agent assisting
 a customer. A Soar Agent for Playing Poker Bob Follek has implemented an
 architecture for an autonomous poker player. His SoarBot uses Soar to play poker
 with the poker server set up by the University of Alberta Computer Poker
-Research Group. Bob can be reached at bob@codeblitz.com Researchers use Soar to
-build an intelligent assistant for IBM's virtual world. Agent reasons about what
-a user needs and guides the user through the virtual world. The assistant
-interacts with the user through typed natural language commands, and can also
-assist with commands for using the virtual world interface.  The research group
-also uses Soar to implement an architecture for an autonomous poker player. The
-agent uses Soar to play poker with the poker server set up by the University of
-Alberta Computer Poker Research Group.  
+Research Group. Bob can be reached at
+[bob@codeblitz.com](mailto:bob@codeblitz.com) Researchers use Soar to build an
+intelligent assistant for IBM's virtual world. Agent reasons about what a user
+needs and guides the user through the virtual world. The assistant interacts
+with the user through typed natural language commands, and can also assist with
+commands for using the virtual world interface. The research group also uses
+Soar to implement an architecture for an autonomous poker player. The agent uses
+Soar to play poker with the poker server set up by the University of Alberta
+Computer Poker Research Group.
 
 University of Southern California
 and the Institute for Creative Technologies
 
 [Bar Ilan University](http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/), Israel is home to the
-[MAVERICK group](https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~kaminkg/maverick/), which conducts research in
-social intelligence, multi-agent and multi-robot systems, and plan recognition.
-Work in Soar has focused on developing Soar-based teamwork capabilities for
-modeling para-military units, multi-agent plan recognition and mirroring, and
-social comparison for groups.  
+[MAVERICK group](https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~kaminkg/maverick/), which conducts
+research in social intelligence, multi-agent and multi-robot systems, and plan
+recognition.  Work in Soar has focused on developing Soar-based teamwork
+capabilities for modeling para-military units, multi-agent plan recognition and
+mirroring, and social comparison for groups.
+
+[Prof. Dr. Claudia Meitinger][cm]'s team at the
+[Augsburg Technical University of Applied Sciences](https://tha.de) is
+utilizing Soar to enhance various aspects of human-machine interaction and
+problem-solving.
+In the [B2X Beyond SalesBot project](https://www.tha.de/TTZ-Noerdlingen/Page44530.html),
+the aim is to develop, validate, and generalize an AI-based tool for technical
+sales, using deburring tools as a case study. A Soar agent is used for the tool
+configuration process, determining the tool parameters based on the
+customer requirements, which are enquired step-by-step.
+Additionally, the research group on [Human-Machine Interaction with Intelligent Systems][hmiwis]
+focuses on developing a demonstrator for a use case where a
+collaborative grinding robot is delegated by shop floor workers. Soar is
+employed to facilitate human-machine interaction by providing an abstract
+communication level, contributing to knowledge base expansion and task
+inference based on delegated tasks.
+
+[cm]: https://www.tha.de/Elektrotechnik/Claudia-Meitinger.html
+[hmiwis]: https://www.tha.de/Forschungsschwerpunkte/KI-Produktionsnetzwerk/Mensch-Maschinen-Interaktion-mit-intelligenten-Systemen.html