Current Activities
- General (Co-)Chair of International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 2023 (ICMI)
- Platform Learning Systems (Germany's Platform for Artificial Intelligence), Co-Leader of Working Group (Work/Qualification, Human-Computer-Interaction)
Scientific Career
- 1988 Diploma in Computer Science at Department of Computer Science at Saarland ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿, Title of Diploma Thesis: Generierung nat¨¹rlichsprachlicher ?u?erungen zur simultanen Beschreibung von zeitver?nderlichen 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 ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿, Title of Thesis: Ein planbasierter Ansatz zur Generierung multimedialer Pr?sentationen (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 ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿
- 2001- Full Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia at Augsburg ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿
- 2004-2006 Managing Director of Institute for Computer Science at Augsburg ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿
- 2009 Call to W3-Professorship in Mensch-Maschine Interaktion (Human-Machine Interaction) from Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg
- 2009 Call to W3-Professorship in Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und Kognitive Systeme (Human-Computer Interaction and Cognitive Systems) from ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ of Stuttgart
Awards and Honors
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2020 Awarded with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2021 of the German Research Foundation
- 2019 Named one of ten most influential figures in the history of AI in Germany by the National Society for Informatics - GI, (von der Gesellschaft f¨¹r Informatik ausgew?hlt als einer der "Zehn pr?genden K?pfe der deutschen KI-Geschichte")
- 2019 French finance newspaper Les Echos names Prof. Andr¨¦ work on the automated synthesis of natural language description for image sequences in the article ¡° Quand les machines apprennent ¨¤ ¨¦crire¡± one out of eight milestones in the history of natural language generation
- 2017 Elected Member of the CHI Academy
- 2014 Enseignante invit¨¦e aupr¨¨s de l¡¯universit¨¦ Paris Sud (Invited Professorship)
- 2013 Elected ECCAI Fellow (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence)
- 2010 Elected Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2010 Elected Member of Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea)
- 2010 Elected Member of AcademiaNet
- 2007 Alcatel-Lucent Fellowship, Internationales Zentrum f¨¹r Kultur- und Technikforschung der Universit?t Stuttgart (IZKT), combined with a grant of 25.000 €
- 1998 RoboCup Scientific Award
- 1996 Research Fellowship (Stanford Research Institute ¨C SRI)
- 1995 European IT Prize Winner
Awards at Scientific Conferences
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2022 for ¡°Flow with the Beat! Human-Centered Design of Virtual Environments for Musical Creativity Support in VR¡±. Creativity & Cognition 2022: 428-442
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2022 for ¡°Jamming in MR: Towards Real-Time Music Collaboration in Mixed Reality¡±. VR Workshops 2022: 854-855
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2022 of all PETRA Workshops for ¡°We've never been eye to eye: A Pupillometry Pipeline for the Detection of Stress and Negative Affect in Remote Working Scenarios¡±. PETRA 2022: 486-493
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2020 Best Technical Paper Award at 2020 DELTA, 1st International Conference on Deep LearningTheory and Applications, July 8 -10 2020, Online Virtual Conference
- 2020 Nominated for Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2020 (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) 9.5. ¨C 13.5.2020, Auckland, NZ
- 2019 Best Technical Paper Award at 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 3.9. - 6.9.2019, Cambridge, UK
- 2019 Best Technical Paper Award at 2019 PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference
- 2019 Best Poster Award at 2019 PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference
- 2019 2nd Poster Award 11th Workshop Congress and 37th Symposium of the German Society for Psychology
- 2018 IJSA Highest Cited Paper 2018: ¡°Dear Computer, Teach Me Manners: Testing Virtual Employment Interview Training¡± awarded by the International Journal of Selection and Assessment.
- 2018 Nominated for two Best Paper Awards at 2018 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI)
- 2018 Best Student Paper Award at Digital Health 2018
- 2017 Nominated for Best Late Breaking report at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
- 2015 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Culture and Computing 2015
- 2013 Most Participative Demo Award at User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2013 Conference
- 2013 Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Intelligent Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI)
- 2013 Honorable Mention of SSI Framework for Best Open Source Software at ACM Multimedia
- 2012 Best Paper Finalist at International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2012)
- 2007, 2008 & 2009 Best Paper Finalist at International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
- 2008 Award for Most Innovative Idea at Second International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI 2008), Bonn, XENAKIS
- 2005 Convivio Best Demo Award for People-centred Agent Technologies awarded at AAMAS 2005
- 2000 Best Paper Award at International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
Functions of Honor
- DFG Committee on Scientific Instrumentation and Information Technology since 2023
- 2022 Wahl in die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW)
- 2021 - 2024 Expert Committee AI ¨C Data Science of Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs
- 2020 - 2023 Bavarian Artificial Intelligence Council
- 2020 - 2023 Bavarian Ethics Council
- 2021 European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ( ELLIS) Fellow
- 2021 AAIA Fellow (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association)
- 2020 - LBI-DHP, Ludwig-Boltzman Institut: Digital Health and Prevention, Advisory Board present
- 2020 - 2021 Kuratorium Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung
- 2020 - present Academic Advisory Board of EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence-Driven Systems at Swansea ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿, UK
- 2019 - 2022 Member of Dagstuhl Directorate
- 2019 - 2022 Milner Award Commitee of the Royal Society
- 2019 - 2023 ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ Council (Hochschulrat) OTH Regensburg
- 2019 - Scientific Advisory Board of Bavarian Research Foundation
- 2019 - Scientific Advisory Board of Exzellenzstiftung Ingolst?dter Wissenschaft - Ignaz K?hler
- 2018 - 2022 International Scientific Advisory Board of the French AI Research Program
- 2018 - Now Chist-ERA Scientific Advisory Board
- 2018 - IJCAI-ECAI Advisory Commitee
- 2017 ¨C present ACM ICMI Steering Committee Member
- 2017 - 2020 Scientific Advisory Board of Laboratory of Excellence SMART within initiative d¡¯excellence (idex) Sorbonne Universit¨¦s 2017
- 2017 - Platform Self-Learning-Systems ¨C Germany?s Platform for Artificial Intelligence, Co-Chair of Working Group "Future of Work and Human-Computer Interaction"
- 2016 - 2020 Scientific Advisory Board of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
- 2016 - Member of Sinergia evaluation commision of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- ERC Starting Grants evaluation panel 2017, Panel Chair for Systems and Communication Engineering
- ERC Starting Grants evaluation panel 2015, Panel Chair for Systems and Communication Engineering
- ERC Starting Grants evaluation panel 2013, Panel Chair for Systems and Communication Engineering
- ERC Starting Grants evaluation panel 2011 for Systems and Communication Engineering, ¡®shadow¡¯ evaluation panel 2012
- Reviewer of the German Exzellence Initiative 2010 and 2011
- DFG (German Science Foundation) Fachkollegiatin (Representative) for 409-4 "K¨¹nstliche Intelligenz, Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung" (Artificial Intelligence, Language and Language Processing) 2008-2012
- Member of Steering Committee of ACM IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces)
- Member of Steering Committee of ACM IVA(Intelligent Virtual Agents)
- 2017 - Member of Steering Board of ACM ICMI (International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces)
- Member of Board of Directors European Association for Multi-Agent Systems (2009-2011)
- Member of FIT Selection Committee, DAAD (Forschung an internationalen Wissenschafts- und Technologiezentren) since 2009
- Jury Junior of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) appointed by the French minister of higher education and research, 2011
Editorials
- Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing from 2019 -2022
- Since 01/2020 Associate Editor Springer Nature SN Computer Science
- Member of the Advisory Board of ACM Transactions on Intelligent User Interfaces (TIIS)
- Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT) since 2018
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC) from 2010-2015
- Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems (TIIS) from 2011-2019
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)
- Member of the Editorial Board of AI Communications (AICOM)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Cognitive Processing (International Quarterly of Cognitive Science)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Universal Access to the Information Society: An interdisciplinary journal from 2001-2015
- Member of the Editorial Board of Multimodal Interfaces
- Member of the Editorial Review Board of International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) since 2010
- Associate Editor of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies from 2007-2010
- Member of the Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics for the period of 2002-2004
Organization of International Conferences and Workshops
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General (Co-)Chair of International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 2023 (ICMI)
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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
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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 ¨C 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:?
- Social Agents for Teamwork and Group Interactions (October 2019),
- Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game Design (November 2017)
- Computational Models of Cultural Behavior for Human-Agent Interaction (March 2014),
- Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents (March 2004)
- Initiation of workshop series Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technologies (previously Affective Dialogue Systems) with colleagues from ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ of Ulm and ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ 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
Function Owner within ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿
- 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 ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ since 2016
- Managing Director of Institute for Informatics at Augsburg ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ 2004 ¨C 2006
- Member of Competence Centre for Innovative Technologies at Augsburg ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ (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 ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ since 2004
- Erasmus-Representative for Faculty for Applied Informatics at Augsburg ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©ÓÎÏ·_ÍþÄá˹¶Ä²©app-¡¾¹ÙÍø¡¿ since 2004
- GI (Gesellschaft f¨¹r Informatik) Liaison for Augsburg Universit?t
- Coordination of Exchange Programme with National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan)