News Archive (aka the Sociable Agents diary)
- Stefan and Kirsten gave a presentation at the Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung at LMU München
- Elmar Bienek joined the group to work in the SFB B1 project - welcome!
- Full paper on "Low latency recognition and reproduction of natural gesture trajectories" accepted at ICPRAM
- Invited presentation at the Workshop on Embodied Simulations given by Stefan
- Herwin van Welbergen has joined the group as Postdoc - Welcome!
- Kirsten gave a presentation on her model of gesture generation at the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Cognitve Systems at U. Duisburg-Essen.
- Book out now! The IVA proceedings, co-edited by Stefan, got published by Springer-Verlag
- Hendrik presented work on processing listener feedback and information state management at SemDIAL 2011 and at the ICT Workshop on Overlap in Human-Computer Dialogue.
- Poster on mind-reading in dialogue by Christoph presented at the Other Minds conference.
- Paper out now: Embodied Gesture Processing: Motor-Based Integration of Perception and Action in Social Artificial Agents. Cognitive Computation 3(3):419-435. (2011)
- Stefan will present ongoing work "Towards adaptable ECAs" at U. Twente (Netherlands)
- Maha's paper got accepted at the Journal of Social Robotics's (Special issue on Expectations, Intentions & Actions)
- Stefan Kopp is the chair of the Virtual Agents track at the Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2012)
- One full paper and one short paper accepted at IVA 2011 :)
- A paper on how non-/attentive listeners give feedback (in coop with the Phonetics Group) got accepted at Interspeech 2011
- Stefan gave a keynote to the GESPIN conference
- Demos given in the MediaLab as part of the GENIALE science festival on Sept 2nd!
- Official opening of the MediaLab at May 4th, 2-6pm, at H1-116 !!!
- Our paper on "Regulating dialogue with gestures" has been accepted at SIGDIAL 2011
- Three papers will be presented at the Gesture Workshop 2011
- Amir's paper on "Gesture Processing as Grounded Motor Cognition" will be given at ICCS 2011 (Int. Conf. on Cognitive Science)
- Invited presentations at the Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Cognitve Systems, keynotes to the Gesture Workshop 2011 (Athens) and GESPIN 2011
- The website of IVA'2011 is online, the CfP is about to be sent out
- Stefan delivered a keynote to the HART - Human-Agent-Robot-Teamwork workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden.
- Amir's video “Embodying Social Signal Processing” won the Audience Award and the Jury Award at IVA 2010 GALA! Watch an extended version on YouTube.
- Stefan Kopp joined the Editorial Board of the journal Gesture
- We moved to a different building. You can now find us in building H, first floor, rooms H1-113 – H1-120. See it on the campus map.
- Open lab day at the MediaLab on Oct 15th - see CITEC events page
- More than the sum of its parts? - Panel on compositionality in gesture organized at ISGS 2010
- A full paper, a short paper, and a poster accepted at IVA 2010
- Amir's demo video of Vince's gesture learning is among the finalists at the GALA 2010 competition
- Papers on robot speech-gesture accepted at RO-MAN 2010 and IROS 2010
- Stefan Kopp is guest editor of a special issue on "Cognitive Robotics" of Cognitive Processing - see Call for Papers!
- We organize a panel and present our work in several talks at Gesture 2010 (ISGS) and KogWis 2010
- Paper on "Appropriate feedback in asymmetric interactions" out now in Journal of Pragmatics 42(9)
- The book Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, S. Kopp & I. Wachsmuth (eds.), now published by Springer-Verlag.
- A paper titled "A calibration-free head gesture recognition system with online capability" is accepted at ICPR 2010
- Our paper on modeling iconic gesture production by learning Bayesian Decision Networks got accepted by Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence
- The SaGA corpus (speech and gesture alignment) has been presented at LREC workshop
- Best Poster Award at the Interdisciplinary College (IK 2010) for Maha Salem
- Full paper on adaptive speech and gesture generation will be presented at AAMAS 2010
- Research paper "Social Resonance and Embodied Coordination with Artificial Interlocutors" out now in Journal Speech Communication
- Paper on an action-based model of communicative behavior to appear in Cognitive Processing
- Our agent Vince was featured in a radio interview on Radio Hertz (Der Morgen, 25.11.09)
- Maha Salem received a young researchers award at the [science fair] for her thesis work
- Two papers will be given at HCRS'09
- SaGA corpus presented by Kirsten at CLARIN and FLaReNet Workshop on "Best practices for speech and multimodal databases"
- Online article "Social adaptation in conversational agents" appeared in the PerAda Magazine
- Our GNetIc paper was nominated for the IVA'09 Best Paper Award (which eventually went to T. Bickmore et al. for a paper on engagement vs. deceit)
- Our new Media Lab (room Q1-150) inaugurated on Sept 25th, 2009
- Next examns in HCI will be given on Sept 21; register per email to Petra Udelhoven
- Three papers (two long, one short) accepted at IVA'09
- A survey paper will be given at KI2009
- Our paper on speech and gesture generation received the Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award at AAMAS 2009 !! :-)
- Check out Jeroen Arendsen's Blog about GW 2009
