Chair for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André

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Chair for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Phone: +49 821 598 - 2340
Fax: +49 821 598 - 2349
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Room: 2035 (N)
Address: Universitätsstraße 6a, 86159 Augsburg

 

 

Office:

Claudia Dreyer

Phone: +49 821 598-2341

E-Mail: claudia.dreyer@informatik.uni-augsburg.de

 

Visiting Hours:

Please make an appointment by e-mail.

 

Research Interests

  • Multimodal User Interfaces
  • Multimodal Analysis (physiological data, gaze, speech, gestures)
  • Affective Computing & Social Signal Processing
  • Social Robotics & Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Technology-Enhanced Learning
  • Tangible and Perceptive User Interfaces

Current Activities

Scientific Career

  • 1988 Diploma in Computer Science at Department of Computer Science at Saarland University, Title of Diploma Thesis: Generierung natürlichsprachlicher Äußerungen zur simultanen Beschreibung von zeitveränderlichen Szenen: Das System SOCCER (Generation of natural language utterances for the simultaneous description of time varying scenes: The System SOCCER)
  • 1988-2001 Scientific Researcher at DFKI GmbH (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
  • 1995 Dr. rer. Nat. at Department of Computer Science at Saarland University, Title of Thesis: Ein planbasierter Ansatz zur Generierung multimedialer Präsentationen (A plan-based approach for the generation of multimedia presentations)
  • 1995 Promoted to Senior Researcher
  • 1999 Appointed DFKI Research Fellow
  • 1999 Promoted to Principal Researcher
  • 2000 Call to C4-Professorship from Augsburg University
  • 2001- Full Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia at Augsburg University
  • 2004-2006 Managing Director of Institute for Computer Science at Augsburg University
  • 2009 Call to W3-Professorship in Mensch-Maschine Interaktion (Human-Machine Interaction) from Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
  • 2009 Call to W3-Professorship in Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und Kognitive Systeme (Human-Computer Interaction and Cognitive Systems) from University of Stuttgart

Awards and Honors

Awards at Scientific Conferences

Functions of Honor

Editorials

Organization of International Conferences and Workshops

  • General (Co-)Chair of International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 2023 (ICMI)

  • Co-Organizer of one of the CIFAR AI and Society Workshops: Trust in Artificial Intelligence Systems (40 k CAD funding from CIFAR AI and Society Initiative) 28. - 29.5.2020, London, United Kingdom, Cancelled due to Covid 19

  • PC Member of the , Global Forum on AI for Humanity, Oct 2019

  • Co-Organizer of Shonan Workshop on Multimodal Agents for Ageing and Multicultural Societies, October 29 – November 30, 2018
  • General Co-Chair of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems ( AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden
  • Program Co-Chair of 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education ( AIED 2017), Wuhan, China - June 28 - July 02, 2017
  • General Co-Chair of 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction ( ICMI 2016), Tokyo, Japan
  • Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Social Robotics ( ICSR 2015), Paris, France
  • Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2011), Palo Alto, USA
  • Program Co-Chair of 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ( ICIDS 2011), Vancouver, Canada
  • Program Co-Chair of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2010), Saint Malo, France
  • General Conference Co-Chair of 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents ( IVA 2007), Paris, France
  • General Chair of Fourth German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2006), Erfurt, Germany
  • Main Organizer of four Dagstuhl Seminars: 
  • Initiation of workshop series Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technologies (previously Affective Dialogue Systems) with colleagues from University of Ulm and University of Southern Denmark (Proceedings published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences LNCS series in 2004, 2006, 2008)
  • Programme Co-Chair of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2003), Miami, USA
  • Programme Co-Chair of Autonomous Agents 2001, Montreal, Canada

Research projects

Externally funded Projects
Finished Projects
Internal Projects

Function Owner within University

  • Leading the successful accreditation of ten study programs (BSc/MSc Informatik, BSc/MSc Informatik und Multimedia, Elitemasterstudiengang Software Engineering, BSc Geoinformatik, BSc/MSc Business Informatics, BSc/MSc Engineering Informatics in 2018
  • Ethics Committee of Augsburg University since 2016
  • Managing Director of Institute for Informatics at Augsburg University 2004 – 2006
  • Member of Competence Centre for Innovative Technologies at Augsburg University (ACIT)
  • Leading the successful accreditation of six study programs (BSc/MSc Informatik, BSc/MSc Informatik und Multimedia, Elitemasterstudiengang Software Engineering, BSc Geoinformatik in 2012)
  • Women’s Representative for Faculty for Applied Informatics at Augsburg University since 2004
  • Erasmus-Representative for Faculty for Applied Informatics at Augsburg University since 2004
  • GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik) Liaison for Augsburg Universität
  • Coordination of Exchange Programme with National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan)

Publications

Publications
Keynotes, Panels and Public Talks

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