- Co-Organizer of the ICMI 2012 Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents. October 26, 2012, Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Reviewer for the
International Journal of Social Robotics, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2010, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2011 & 2012.
Poster Presentations & Awards:
- To Err is Human(-like): Effects of Robot Gesture on Perceived Anthropomorphism and Likability. Interdisciplinary College, Günne am Möhnesee, Germany, March 16th-23rd 2012.
(1st Prize Poster Session Award) - Conceptual Motorics - Generation and Analysis of Communicative Robot Gesture. HRI Pioneers Workshop 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Conceptual Motorics - Generation and Analysis of Humanoid Robot Gesture. Interdisciplinary College, Günne am Möhnesee, Germany, March 12th-19th 2010.
(Best Poster Award - 1st Prize) - Conceptual Motorics - Generation of Meaningful Arm Movements for Humanoid Robot Gesture. Science Fair 2009, Bielefeld University, Germany, November 12th, 2009.
(Science Fair Prize for Intelligent Systems) - Conceptual Motorics. International Workshop on Robotics for Young Researchers 2009 (HUROBINT@MIT 2ND), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, March 4th-5th, 2009.
Media Coverage:
- November 2008: ARD 'W wie Wissen' - "Bewegungsfreudiger Roboter aus Japan"
- October 2008: NRW-Invest Campaign "We love the New"
- May 2008: WDR Lokalzeit - "Asimos neues Zuhause"
Society Memberships:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
- The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
- 2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (EUCogII)
- German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)