As of September 1, 2021, Dr. Ceenu George is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, in the Department of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Her research focuses on the use of VR (Virtual Reality) applications in public and collaborative venues. Her research has three main foci: (1) security and privacy, (2) communication with physical collaborators, and (3) dealing with presence, both in physical and virtual reality. The overarching vision of her research is to reduce the separation between virtual and physical reality by developing usable and secure applications that enable seamless interaction between the two realities.

Matteo Lavit Nicora is a Mechanical Engineer, graduated cum laude at Politecnico di Milano in 2019. He completed his master thesis at the University of Florida laboratories in a project aimed at developing intelligent human-robot collaboration for smart factories, which led to a first publication for the Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. Since February 2020, he started operating for STIIMA–CNR as a Graduate Research Fellow and, starting November 2021, he is also enrolled in the Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Sciences PhD program at the University of Bologna. His main research activities focus on the design of human-centred control systems for mechatronic devices in social, rehabilitation and industrial applications. In particular, he works on the exploitation of social, physiological and psychological signals with the aim of characterizing and improving the user’s experience while in interaction with robotic devices.

Dr. Tom Giraud was offering a multimedia project on "Computer-Assisted Therapy of Autism Patients" with a volume of 12 SWS per week over a period of two months - as an elective module for the bachelor's program in Computer Science and the new program in Medical Information Sciences and as a compulsory module for the bachelor's program in Computer Science and Multimedia. He is also working on a cooperation with the Dominikus Ringeisen Werk.

In collaboration with the psychologist Prof. Jacqueline Nadel, one of the most famous autism researchers worldwide, Dr. Giraud has developed a tangile virtual environment for the therapy of autism patients. This environment enables autistic children to perform actions together with a virtual character. This environment was developed at our chair. Within the multimedia project the use of this tangile virtual environment can be investigated in a facility with autistic patients.

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Prof. Wanner from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona was a guest of the chair in the winter semester 2014. He offered the course "Computer-based generation of natural language".

Prof. Wanner works in the field of computational linguistics.His research foci include automatic multilingual report generation, automatic summarization of written material and information extraction. He is furthermore interested in lexicology and lexicography, and there, in particular, in the recognition, representation and use of lexical idiosyncrasies by both native speakers and learners of a language.

Dr. Brigitte Krenn is a researcher and lecturer at the Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI). In winter semester 13/14 she visited us as a guest lecturer at the University of Augsburg. She offered the internship Game Programming and Artificial Intelligence.

Brigitte Krenn is head of Unit of OFAI's Language and Interaction Technologies Group.

Brigitte Krenn's overall research interest lies in understanding and computationally modelling human communication and interaction capabilities. Her work centers around two pilars.
The one is core language technology combining deep linguistic analysis and shallow corpus-based approaches to text processing.
The other one focuses on multi-modal communicative interaction, including modelling virtual agent behaviours, multimodal dialogue, dialogue and memory, language understanding from the point of view of a situated cognizer, as well as assessing the implications of multimodal signals on the socio-emotional evaluation of the sender (speaker) by the receiver (hearer).

After visiting Augsburg University for a couple of month in 2010/2011 in a collaboration project with the groups of Prof. Andre and Prof. Timpf (Geoinformatics), I'm back: From October 2011 to August 2012, I'm happy to work as a Guest Professor at the Institut für Informatik, University of Augsburg. Originally, I'm full professor in Information Technology at the Örebro University in Örebro, Sweden (>200km west of Stockholm). There, I'm heading the Research Team Multiagent Simulation at the Modeling and Simulation Research Center. On my home webpages, more information about my research and my publications can be found. In Örebro I'm teaching in the International Master's Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems as well as in the Bacholor Program on Computer Science for Simulation and Games.

During my time as a Guest Professor, I'm giving a number of courses at the University of Augsburg:

SS2012

Vorlesung: Einführung in die Künstliche Intelligenz (erste Vorlesung am 18.4., 14:00 in 1058/N)

Seminar: Geosimulation (Anmeldung über LectureReg, Vorbesprechung, 17.4., 17:30 in 1057/N)

Seminar: Naturanaloge Algorithmen und Multiagentensysteme mit Prof. Hähner (Anmeldung über Digicampus, Vorbesprechung 25.4. um 12:15 in 1057/N)

Praktikum: Multiagentensysteme (Anmeldung über LectureReg, Vorbesprechung, 16.4., 15:45 2026/N) 

WS2011/2012

Vorlesung: Multiagentensysteme

Techniken der Verkehrssimulation

Together with Michael Wissner: Praktikum: Multimodale User Interfaces: Virtuelles Klassenzimmer

Together with Prof. Sabine Timpf (Geoinformatics), I'm organizing a "Methodenseminar" in Geoinformatics.

A visiting student from group for voice and language, UPF, Spain, and collaborator on emotion recognition.