Birgit Lugrin

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Birgit Lugrin (* 1981 as Birgit Endrass in Augsburg ) is a German computer scientist. Since the summer semester 2015 she has been professor for media informatics and head of the associated research group at the Institute for Informatics at the University of Würzburg .

Career

Lugrin completed a degree in computer science at the University of Augsburg , which she completed in November 2007 with a master's thesis on "Social Group Behavior for Multiagent Systems" at the Chair for Multimedia Concepts and Applications . With a dissertation on the topic of "Cultural Diversity for Virtual Characters" she received her doctorate in 2012 at the chair of Multimodal Human-Technology Interaction by Elisabeth André . As the first scientist from a German and the third from a European university, she was awarded the Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award . After completing her doctorate, she initially worked as an academic adviser at the University of Augsburg. In the summer semester of 2014 she taught as a substitute professor for Frank Steinicke at the University of Würzburg. At the beginning of 2015, she followed the call to a professorship for media informatics in Würzburg.

Lugrin names “ Designing for Diversity ” as the principle of her interdisciplinary research . Their focus is on technical interfaces , such as B. virtual agents , humanoid robots or mobile applications, which are tailored to the different needs and capabilities of different user groups . The research activities lie, for example, in the potential of using socially humanoid robots in care for the elderly or the integration of cultural behaviors in virtual worlds . From 2007 to 2017, 59 journal, book and conference articles were published that were written by Lugrin as part of her academic work or in which she was significantly involved. Before 2015 she published under her maiden name Birgit Endrass.

Awards

  • " Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award" (2012) by the "International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems" (IFAAMAS)
  • Prize of the University of Augsburg Foundation 2012

Publications (excerpt)

  • Cultural Diversity for Virtual Characters: Investigating Behavioral Aspects across Cultures . ( Dissertation ) Springer Vieweg 2014 doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-04910-2 ISBN 978-3-658-04909-6 ( limited preview )
  • with Markus Haering, Gasser Akila, Elisabeth André : Simulating Deceptive Cues of Joy in Humanoid Robots . In: Timothy Bickmore, Stacy Marsella, Candace Sidner: Intelligent Virtual Agents Springer 2014 pp. 174–177 ISBN 978-3-319-09766-4 ( limited preview )
  • with Felix Kistler, Elisabeth André: Full Body Interaction with Virtual Characters in an Interactive Storytelling Scenario . In: Timothy Bickmore, Stacy Marsella, Candace Sidner: Intelligent Virtual Agents Springer 2014 pp. 236–239 ISBN 978-3-319-09766-4 ( limited preview )
  • with Ionut Damian, Peter Huber, Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth André: Individualized Agent Interactions . In: Jan Allbeck, Petros Faloutsos: Intelligent virtual Agents . Springer 2011 pp. 15–26 ISBN 978-3-642-25089-7 ( limited preview )
  • with Christoph Klektiven, Gregor Mehlmann, Elisabeth André, Christian Roth: Exploration of User Reactions to Different Dialog-based Interaction Styles . In: Interactive Storytelling . Springer 2011 pp. 243–248 ISBN 978-3-642-25288-4 ( limited preview )
  • with Matthias Rehm and Elisabeth André: Towards Culturally-Aware Virtual Agent Systems In: Emmanuel G. Blanchard: Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology 2010 pp. 412–429 ISBN 9781615208845 ( limited preview )
  • with Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André, Nikolaus Bee, Michael Wißner, Y. Nakano, T. Nishida, H. Huang: The CUBE-G approach - Coaching culture-specific non-verbal behavior by virtual agents . In: Jonathan Gratch et al .: Organizing and Learning Through Gaming and Simulation Eburon Uitgeverij BV 2007 pp. 313–322 ISBN 978-9-059-72231-6 ( limited preview )
  • with Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Theories of Social Group Dynamics . In: Jonathan Gratch et al .: Intelligent Virtual Agents Springer 2006 pp. 465–466 ISBN 978-3-540-37593-7 ( limited preview )

Literature reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birgit Endrass: Social Group Behavior for Multiagent Systems . Master's thesis at the chair for multimedia concepts and applications at the University of Augsburg. November 26, 2007
  2. ↑ Cultural diversity for virtual characters . In: University of Augsburg . April 29, 2013
  3. ^ New at the Institute for Computer Science In: University of Würzburg . 5th April 2014
  4. ↑ Klaus P. Prem: Cultural diversity for virtual characters In: idw . April 29, 2013
  5. ^ Awards from the University of Augsburg Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Lugrin, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Endrass, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg