Elisabeth André

Elisabeth André (born November 3, 1961 in Saarlouis ) is a German computer scientist and holder of the Chair of Multimodal Human-Technology Interaction at the University of Augsburg .

Career

André completed her computer science studies at Saarland University in 1988 with a diploma thesis on the subject of "Generating natural language utterances for the simultaneous description of time-changing scenes: the SOCCER system". From 1988 to 2001 she worked as a research assistant at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence . In 1995, she was with a dissertation on "A schedule-based approach for the generation of multimedia presentations" to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. In 2000 she accepted the call to a C4 professorship at the University of Augsburg. In 2001 she took over the management of the chair for multimedia concepts and applications. From 2004 to 2006 she was the managing director of the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Augsburg.

As an expert in “Intelligent User Interfaces”, “Virtual Agents” and “Social Computing”, André researches aspects and new technical methods of interaction between humans and computers with the aim of simplifying the handling of technical devices for humans. Her main research interests are human-machine interaction , multimodal interfaces , multimodal analysis ( physiological data, eye movements , language , gestures ), affective computing, tangible and haptic user interfaces , interaction techniques for expanded realities , virtual characters and interaction with mobile devices in instrumented rooms. Media designers , cognitive psychologists , educators and dramaturges are involved in transdisciplinary research .

Awards

• In 2019 one of the "Ten Formative Minds in German AI History" from the Society for Computer Science
• since 2017 member of the CHI Academy ( SIGCHI )
• 2014 invitation professorship at the University of Paris-South
• since 2013 ECCAI Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)
• since March 24, 2010 member ( matriculation no. 7338 ) of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• Member of AcademiaNet since 2010
• since 2010 member of the Academia Europaea
• 2007, 2008, 2009 Best Paper Finalist of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
• 2007 Alcatel-Lucent Fellowship at the International Center for Research on Culture and Technology at the University of Stuttgart (IZKT)
• 2005 Convivio Best Demo Award for People-centered Agent Technologies
• 2000 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
• 1998 RoboCup Scientific Award
• 1995 European "Information Technology Innovation Award" (IT Prize)

Memberships in scientific committees

• Reviewer for DFG , European Union and various national research funding organizations in the USA ( National Science Foundation (NSF)), Denmark, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands.
• Membership in the editorial board of the journals Cognitive Processing - International Quarterly of Cognitive Science , Universal Access in the Information Society: An interdisciplinary journal , AI Communications (AICOM), Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)
• Co-editor of the journals ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (until 2010)
• Member of the DFG Review Board 409-4 Artificial Intelligence, Image and Language Processing since April 2008, since 2007 representative of the subject “Artificial Intelligence, Image and Language Processing” in the DFG Review Board “Computer Science”, 2002–2004 Multimodal Interfaces, Computational Linguistics

Publications (selection)

From 1998 to 2017, over 240 articles in journals, books and conferences were published that were written by André as part of her academic work or in which she was significantly involved.

• E. André: Preparing emotional agents for intercultural communication . In: Rafael A. Calvo, S. D'Mello, J. Gratch, A. Kappas (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing. Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 309-320.
• E. André, JC Martin, F. Lingenfelser, J. Wagner: Multimodal fusion in human-agent dialogue . In: M. Rocj, N. Campbell (Eds.): Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction, CRC Press. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014, pp. 387-410.
• E. André, JC Martin: Multimodal systems . In: R. Mitkov (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2014.
• D. Kuchenbrandt, M. Häring, J. Eichberg, F. Eyssel, E. André: Keep an eye on the task! How gender typicality of tasks influence human-robot interactions . In: IJ Social Robotics. 6, 2014, pp. 417-427.
• J. Wagner, F. Lingenfelser, E. André: Building a robust system for multimodal emotion recognition . In: A. Konar, A. Chakraborty (Eds.): Emotion Recognition: A Pattern Analysis Approach. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 379-419.
• B. Endrass , E. André, M. Rehm, Y. Nakano: Investigating culture-related aspects of behavior for virtual characters. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 2013, pp. 1–28.
• J. Wagner, E. André, F. Lingenfelser, J. Kim, T. Vogt: Exploring fusion methods for multimodal emotion recognition with missing data. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2011.
• E. André: Experimental Methodology in Emotion-Oriented Computing. IEEE Pervasive Computing . 10, 2011, pp. 54-57.
• B. Endraß, M. Rehm, E. André: Planning Small Talk behavior with Cultural Influences for Multiagent Systems . In: Computer Speech & Language. 25, 2011, pp. 158-174.
• E. André, C. Pelachaud: Interacting with embodied conversational agents . In: F. Chen, K. Jokinen (Eds.): Speech Technology. Springer US, 2010, pp. 123-149.
• E. André: Design and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents for Educational and Advisory Software . In: R. Luppicini (Ed.): Handbook of Conversation Design for Instructional Applications . Information Science Reference, 2008.
• J. Kim, E. André: Emotion Recognition based on Physiological Changes in Music Listening . In: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 30, 2008, pp. 2067-2083.
• E. André, Laila Dybkjaer, Wolfgang Minker, Paul Heisterkamp: Affective Dialogue Systems . Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-22143-3 . ( limited preview )
• E. André: A plan-based approach to generating multimedia presentations. Dissertation . 1995, ISBN 3-89601-108-1 .

Literature reviews

• Publications at Academia.edu
• Publications indexed in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
• Publications on the academic literature search engine Google Scholar
• Publications at ResearchGate
• Literature from and about Elisabeth André in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Elisabeth André in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

• Website of Elisabeth André at the " Chair of Multimodal Human-Technology Interaction" at the University of Augsburg
• Leopoldina Newly elected members 2010, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2011, p. 9 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The ten formative minds of German AI history / ki50. Retrieved February 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Laudation for Elisabeth André as a member of the CHI Academy 2017 ( SIGCHI )
3. ^ Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 23, 2017.
5. ^ Elisabeth André in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet
6. ^ Profile of Elisabeth André at Academia Europaea
7. ↑ Publications by and with Elisabeth André since 1998.