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:
Please make an appointment by e-mail.
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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 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏, Title of Diploma Thesis: Generierung natürlichsprachlicher ?u?erungen zur simultanen Beschreibung von zeitver?nderlichen Szenen: Das System SOCCER (Generation of natural language utterances for the simultaneous description of time varying scenes: The System SOCCER)
- 1988-2001 Scientific Researcher at DFKI GmbH (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
- 1995 Dr. rer. Nat. at Department of Computer Science at Saarland 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏, 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 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏
- 2001- Full Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia at Augsburg 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏
- 2004-2006 Managing Director of Institute for Computer Science at Augsburg 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏
- 2009 Call to W3-Professorship in Mensch-Maschine Interaktion (Human-Machine Interaction) from Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg
- 2009 Call to W3-Professorship in Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und Kognitive Systeme (Human-Computer Interaction and Cognitive Systems) from 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Stuttgart
Awards and Honors
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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
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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
- 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. – 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 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏, UK
- 2019 - 2022 Member of Dagstuhl Directorate
- 2019 - 2022 Milner Award Commitee of the Royal Society
- 2019 - 2023 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 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) appoi