In the following, the theses I supervised and courses I offered at the Bielefeld University.
MediaLab Projekt |
The MediaLab Project is managed as a teamwork in two different but cooperating deciplines: Human Computer Interaction and Computer Graphic (supervised by Graphic & Geomtry Group). The long term goal of the project is to develop an interactive virtual trainer of different kinds of motions, such as dance or sport.
Using MS Kinect we track the user's skeleton and mirror the motions in a virtual avatar on a screen. Beside the avatar of the user as a trainee, the user sees Dave, a virtual humanoid agent, which is the virtual trainer. The trainer performs movements, loaded from a motion data bank, and observes the user imitating him. Comparing the user's captured motion (using Kinect) with the loaded motion for Dave, the performance error is computed and uttered by Dave. A dialog manager manages the whole verbal and nonverbal interaction.
Imitation Learning for Social Agents |
Presenting and discussing different chapters of the book:
"Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions"
Main focuses:
- Correspondance problem of imitation
- Neurobiological studies
- Imitation and intention
- Why and what to imitate