Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André

Chairholder

Chair for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Phone:	+49 821 598 - 2340
Fax:	+49 821 598 - 2349
Email:	andre@informatik.uni-augsburginformatik.uni-augsburg.de ()
Room:	2035 (N)
Address:	Universit?tsstra?e 6a, 86159 Augsburg

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Office:

Claudia Dreyer

Phone: +49 821 598-2341

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

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Visiting Hours:

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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

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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】, Title of Diploma Thesis: Generierung natürlichsprachlicher ?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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】, 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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】
2001- Full Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia at Augsburg 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】
2004-2006 Managing Director of Institute for Computer Science at Augsburg 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】
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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Stuttgart

Awards and Honors

2020 Awarded with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2021 of the German Research Foundation
2021 ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award
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 für Informatik ausgew?hlt als einer der "Zehn pr?genden K?pfe der deutschen KI-Geschichte")
2019 French finance newspaper Les Echos names Prof. André work on the automated synthesis of natural language description for image sequences in the article “ Quand les machines apprennent à écrire” one out of eight milestones in the history of natural language generation
2017 Elected Member of the CHI Academy
2014 Enseignante invitée auprès de l’université 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 für 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 – SRI)
1995 European IT Prize Winner

Awards at Scientific Conferences

2022 for “Flow with the Beat! Human-Centered Design of Virtual Environments for Musical Creativity Support in VR”. Creativity & Cognition 2022: 428-442
2022 for “Jamming in MR: Towards Real-Time Music Collaboration in Mixed Reality”. VR Workshops 2022: 854-855
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
2020 Best Technical Paper Award at 2020 DELTA, 1^st 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. – 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 Election to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)
2021 - 2024 Expert Committee AI – 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 - ? present LBI-DHP, Ludwig-Boltzman Institut: Digital Health and Prevention, Advisory Board?
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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】, UK
2019 - 2022 Member of Dagstuhl Directorate
2019 - 2022 Milner Award Commitee of the Royal Society
2019 - 2023 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 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 – present ACM ICMI Steering Committee Member
2017 - 2020 Scientific Advisory Board of Laboratory of Excellence SMART within initiative d’excellence (idex) Sorbonne Universités 2017
2017 - Platform Self-Learning-Systems – 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 "Künstliche 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

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:?
- 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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Ulm and 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 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

Drittmittelprojekte

Finished Projects

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Internal Projects

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Function Owner within 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】

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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 since 2016
Managing Director of Institute for Informatics at Augsburg 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 2004 – 2006
Member of Competence Centre for Innovative Technologies at Augsburg 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 (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 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 since 2004
Erasmus-Representative for Faculty for Applied Informatics at Augsburg 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 since 2004
GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik) Liaison for Augsburg Universit?t
Coordination of Exchange Programme with National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan)

Publications

Keynotes, Panels and Public Talks

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