News Archive (aka the Sociable Agents diary)
- Stefan invited as associate editor of Cognitive Processing.
- Hendrik participated in the Workshop on Architectures for Conversationally Competent Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Stefan honoray speaker at the INSYGHT lab opening at Delft University of Technology
- Keynote to the ICMI 2012 Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtual and Robot Agents
- Amir`s Paper "Gesture-based Objekt Recognition Using Histogram of Guiding Strokes" accepted at the BMVC 2012 conference.
- Ramin gave his paper “Toward a Virtual Assistant for Vulnerable Users: Designing Careful Interaction” at SMIAE 2012
- Stefan gave a plenary talk ("Computational Gesture Studies") and Kirsten a presentation ("Gesture Alignment in Dialogue") at the ISGS 2012 conference/a> in Lund, Sweden<.
- Maha is defending her PhD thesis on July 4, 4:30 pm, room H10
- Our paper on using a Bayesian model to unveil listener state and information state has been accepted for presentation at SemDial 2012.
- Two long papers and one poster accepted at IVA 2012.
- Our collaborative work with the Dialogue Systems Group on using incremental language generation and speech synthesis for adaptive information presentation will be presented by Timo Baumann at SigDIAL 2012.
- Presentations of our work at the Potsdam Comp.Ling. Colloquium, the German-French Workshop on Cognitive Interaction and Technology and the SFB Workshop on Theory of Communiation
- Papers accepted at CogSci 2012 (on gesture alignment), the Listening Talker Workshop (on cues of inattentiveness), the SMIAE workshop (on assistance for user with special needs), and INLG 2012 (on incremental referring expressions).
- Stefan gives a talk on multimodal prosody to the workshop on "Dynamic Modeling of Articulation an Prosodic Structure" in Cologne.
- Maha's Poster won the Poster Session Award at IK 2012. :)
- Stefan and Kirsten will give a talk at the Max-Planck-Institute, Nijmegen.
- Stefan will give a talk on assistive systems and the VASA project to the Fachtag Altenhilfe organized by Bethel Foundation.
- Hendrik will present the paper “Prosodic characteristics of feedback expressions in distracted and non-distracted listeners” at the ‘Listening Talker’ workshop in Edinburgh (joint work with Bielefeld's Phonetics and Phonology Group).
- Radio Bielefeld featured our agent BILLIE and our project in cooperation with Bethel
- Ulf's paper "Low latency recognition and reproduction of natural gesture trajectories" nominated for Best Student Paper Award at ICPRAM 2012.
- Kirsten Bergmann to get the Dissertation Award of the westfälisch-lippische Universitätsgesellschaft!
- Stefan to give a plenary talk at the next year's 5th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies
- Special Corner: Cognitive Robotics (edited by S. Kopp and J. Steil) appeared in Cognitive Processing
- 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
