Dipl.-Inform. Hana Boukricha

Contact

Office: M4-118 Campus map
Tel: +49 521 106-2918
Fax: +49 521 106-2962
E-mail: hboukric ( at ) TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.de

Mailing address

Universität Bielefeld
AG Wissensbasierte Systeme
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Germany

Location

Universität Bielefeld
AG Wissensbasierte Systeme
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
Germany

About

I studied "Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences" at Bielefeld University. Currently I am a Ph.D. student in the Artificial Intelligence Group headed by Prof. Dr. Ipke Wachsmuth and a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 673 "Alignment in Communication". In my doctoral thesis I am investigating how to endow a virtual human with the ability to "empathize" with his interaction partner by allowing him affective partner modeling using facial mimicry and role-taking. Related Bachelor/Master thesis topics are listed here.

Teaching

Summerterm 2012

Seminar Agentensysteme - eine praktische Einführung eKVV entry

Summerterm 2011

Seminar Agentensysteme - eine praktische Einführung eKVV entry

Summerterm 2010

Seminar Multiagentensysteme - eine praktische Einführung eKVV entry

Summerterm 2009

Seminar Multiagentensysteme - eine praktische Einführung eKVV entry

Summerterm 2008

Seminar Agentensysteme eKVV entry

Courses

Programming Autonomy - Practical course at the Interdisciplinary College 2012, Günne at Lake Möhne, March 16 - 23, 2012.
Programming Autonomy - Practical course at the Interdisciplinary College 2011 (IK 2011), Günne at Lake Möhne, March 25 - April 1, 2011.
Multiagent Systems. Course at the CITEC Summer School 2010, CITEC, Bielefeld University, September 6 - 11, 2010.
Multi-Agent Systems: Hands-On. Method course at the Interdisciplinary College 2010, Günne at Lake Möhne, March 12 - 19, 2010.

Projects

A1 - Modelling Partners, in SFB 673 - Alignment in Communication

Publications

H. Boukricha, N. Nguyen, and I. Wachsmuth (2011): Sharing Emotions and Space - Empathy as a Basis for Cooperative Spatial Interaction. In S. Kopp, S. Marsella, K. Thorisson, & H. Vilhjalmsson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2011) (pp. 350-362). Berlin: Springer (LNAI 6895), Reykjavik, Iceland. e-ISBN 978-3-642-23974-8.
H. Boukricha and I. Wachsmuth (2011): Empathy-based Emotional Alignment for a Virtual Human: A Three-Step Approach. German Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Künstl Intell 25(3), pp. 195-204 (open access fulltext). DOI 10.1007/s13218-011-0109-8.
H. Boukricha and I. Wachsmuth (2011): Modeling Empathy for a Virtual Human: How, When and to What Extent? (Extended Abstract). In K. Tumer, P. Yolum, L. Sonenberg, and P. Stone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011) (pp. 1035-1036). IFAAMAS, Taipei, Taiwan. ISBN-10 0-9826571-7-X, ISBN-13 978-0-9826571-7-1.
H. Boukricha and I. Wachsmuth (2011): Mechanism, Modulation, and Expression of Empathy in a Virtual Human. In Proceedings of the IEEE SSCI2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence (WACI) (pp. 30-37). New York: IEEE Press, Paris, France. ISBN 978-1-61284-082-6.
H. Boukricha and I. Wachsmuth (2009): Towards Facial Mimicry for a Virtual Human. In D. Reichardt (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact, in conj. with the 32th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2009) (pp. 32-39). Paderborn, Germany. ISSN 1865-6374.
H. Boukricha, I. Wachsmuth, A. Hofstätter, and K. Grammer (2009): Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance Driven Facial Expression Simulation. In C. Mühl, D. Heylen, and A. Nijholt (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009) (pp. 119-125). New York: IEEE Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 978-1-4244-4799-2.
H. Boukricha (2008): A First Approach for Simulating Affective Theory of Mind Through Mimicry and Role-Taking. In The Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Symposium: Emotional Computer Systems and Interfaces (pp. 529-530). Moscow, Russia. ISBN 5-91086-008-1.[pdf]
H. Boukricha, C. Becker, and I. Wachsmuth (2007): Simulating Empathy for the Virtual Human Max. In D. Reichardt and P. Levi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact, in conj. with the 30th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2007) (pp. 23-28). Osnabrück, Germany. ISSN 1865-6374.[pdf]

Presentations

H. Boukricha and I. Wachsmuth: Modeling Empathy for a Virtual Human: How, When and to What Extent?. Poster presentation at the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011).
H. Boukricha: Affective Partner Modeling through Facial Mimicry and Role-Taking. Invited talk at the Emotionskolloquium, Münster, November 18, 2009.
H. Boukricha, N. Nguyen, and I. Wachsmuth: Introducing Emma as Testbed for Emotional Alignment. Poster presentation at the Interdisciplinary College 2008 (IK 2008), Günne at Lake Möhne, March 7-14, 2008.