Invited talks and presentations

Administrator

In REVERSE chronological order:

Artificial Intelligence applied to socially interactive systems – from virtual to robotic humans.
In: "Beyond human capabilities: How do Cybernics and AI will change human physical limits", The 3rd symposium on Ph. D program in Humanics, University of Tsukuba, Japan, December 2020
Official Website
Vorstellung Prof. Dr. Christian Becker-Asano
In: "HORADS 88,6 Uni-Radio der HdM", Audio podcast der Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, June 2020 (German)
Part 1 - Part 2
Vorausgeblickt - Was wäre, wenn Roboter für uns in die Hochschule gehen würden?
In: "Freie Digitale", Audio podcast der Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, May 2020
Official Website
AI und Logistik
In: "DISRUPT NOW! AI for Hamburg", Hammerbrooklyn.Box, Hamburg, November 2019
Official Website and in the news
KI in der mobilen Robotik für die Industrie 4.0
In: VDI-Konferenz “Künstliche Intelligenz”, Berlin, October 2019
Official Website
Über den Einsatz von KI in der mobilen Robotik bei Bosch
In: Folge 4 “Der KI Werkzeugkasten”, Audio podcast: KI in der Industrie 4.0, March 2019
Official Website

ActiveShuttle als Helfer in der Industrie 4.0
In: VDI-Event “Robotik für die Smart Factory”, Kongresszentrum Baden-Baden, December 2018
KI im Einsatz bei autonomen Robotern in der Industrie 4.0
In: Tagung Autorecht 2018, University of Bielefeld, September 2018
Official Website
Emotionssimulation für virtuelle und robotische Agenten
In: Science Cinema, commenting on “Inside Out”, University of Bielefeld & Filmkunsttheater Bielefeld, August 2017
Kollege Roboter
In: Human Ressources Magazin, Ausgabe 01/2016, "Arbeit 4.0", Januar 2016
Online article
Humanoid Robots in Germany and Japan: the Future of Consumer Electronics?
In: "Asa no Kai" Japanese-German breakfast meeting, Deutsch-Japanischer Wirtschaftskreis (DJW), Grandhotel Hessischer Hof, Frankfurt am Main, November 2016.
Official Website (invited talk)
Emotionssimulation für virtuelle und robotische Agenten
In: Science Cinema, "Inside Out", University of Bielefeld & Filmkunsttheater Bielefeld, October 2015.
Official Website (invited talk)
Friends by Design: Androids and humanoids
In: Workshop "Active Friends and Friendly Actions", University of Hamburg, February 2014.
(invited talk)
Computational emotions for social agents
In: Workshop "AI, logic, and epistemic planning", Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2013.
Official Website (invited talk)
Emotionssimulation mit WASABI für virtuelle und robotische Agenten
In: Institutskolloquium, Institut für Psychologie, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany, June 2013.
(invited talk)
Emotions in Android Science and Social Robotics: Why and how?
In: Workshop "Applications for Emotional Robots", in conj. with HRI2013, Tokyo, Japan, March 2013.
Official Website (invited talk)
Emotionsmodellierung und androide Roboter
In: Workshop "Towards a Smart Virtual Worker", "Virtual Humans" research group, TU Chemnitz, Germany, February 2013.
Official Website (invited talk)
To help or not to help: On strategic behavior in virtual emergencies
In: SFB/TR8 Colloquia, SFB/TR 8, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, November 2012.
(invited talk)
Android robots and feelings
In: Robotik und Gesetzgebung, ZiF Bielefeld, Germany, May 2012.
Official Website (invited talk)
Social Robotics
In: Interdisciplinary College 2012 , Heinrich-Luebke-Haus, Günne am Möhnesee, Germany, March 2012.
slides (pdf) (special lecture)
Computational modeling of emotions
In: Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing, Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series, Cambridge, UK, March 2012.
Official Website (with slides (pdf) and video recording of my invited talk)
Computing affect with WASABI, sensing affect for android robots, and eliciting affect in virtual emergencies
In: LIMSI-CNRS, University of Paris Sud, France, November 2011.
Official Website (invited talk)
To help or not to help: On strategic behavior in virtual emergencies
In: Sociable Agents Group, University of Bielefeld, Germany, August 2011.
Official Website (invited talk)

Affective Computing and Android Science in Japan
In: Cognition & Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Sweden, March 2011.
Official Website (invited talk)

Affective Computing with and for virtual agents and android robots
In: Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2010.
Official Website (invited talk)

Facial animation for virtual and robotic agents
In: 13th European Conference on Facial Expression, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, July 2010.
(invited talk)

Affective Computing
In: Interdisciplinary College 2010 , Heinrich-Luebke-Haus, Günne am Möhnesee, Germany, March 2010.
Official Website (special lecture)

Socially interactive humanoids and androids
In: Kolloquium, TU Munich, Faculty of Informatics, Munich, Germany, February 2010.
Official Website (invited talk)

Socially interactive humanoids and androids
In: Kolloquium, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Faculty of Engineering, Freiburg, Germany, February 2010.
Official Website (invited talk)

Laughter in social robotics with humanoids and androids
In: SFB-Kolloquium (SFB/TR 62), Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, August 2009.
Official Website - Slides (pdf) (invited talk)

Wo Wissenschaft & Fiktion sich treffen: Über Forschung mit humanoiden Robotern im Land der aufgehenden Sonne
In: Studien- und Berufsorientierung an den Friedrich-von Bodelschwingh-Schulen in Bethel, Gymnasium Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany, August 2009.
Official Website - Slides (pdf) (talk & lecture)

Laughter in Interaction with Humanoids and Androids
In: CoR-Lab seminar, Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics - CoR-Lab, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2009.
Official Website (invited talk)

Emotions & Laughter for Robots and Androids
In: JSPS's Science Dialogue Program, Kakogawa Higashi High School, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, January 2009.
Official Website - Slides (pdf) (talk & lecture)

Simulating affective processes for autonomous agents: the WASABI architecture
In: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Affective Neuroscience seminar, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan, January 2009.
Official Website - Slides (pdf) (invited talk)

Emotion Simulation for a Virtual Human: Implementing the "As-If" Body-Loop in a Cognitive Architecture
In: Seminar on Virtual Agents, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, April 2007.
Official Website - Slides (pdf) (invited talk)

Emotion modeling for social robots
In: How to build Social Robots, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld, Germany, November 2006.
Official Website - Slides (pdf) (lecture)