Ronald Böck

Dr.- Ing. Ronald Böck

Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (FEIT)
Institut für Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IIKT)
Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, G03-322
Vita

CV

 

07/2020 Higher Doctorate Dr.-Ing. habil. (Habilitation achieving Doktor-Ingenieur habilitatus)
Title: Anticipate the User: Multimodal Analyses in Human-Machine Interaction towards Group Interactions
Venia Legendi: Information Technology (Informationstechnik)
Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
06/2015-08/2015 Visiting Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, China), National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (Group of Jianhua Tao)
since 10/2013 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the Cognitive Systems Group, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
09/2013 Dissertation Doktoringenieur (Dr.-Ing.) (PhD Degree)
Title: Multimodal Automatic User Disposition Recognition in Human-Machine Interaction
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
01/2012 - 03/2012 Visiting Researcher at Trinity College Dublin (Irland), Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Group of Nick Campbell)
10/2007 - 09/2013 Research Assistent in the Cognitive Systems Group, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
09/2007 Diplom in Informatik (Dipl.-Inf.) (Pre-Bologna Master Degree)
Title: Ein Data Mining Verfahren zur Pfadbewertung in Storyboards
Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
06/2007 - 08/2007 Student Research Assistant in Artificial Intelligence
03/2007 - 05/2007 Student Research Assistant in Neuro Computer Sciences
10/2002 Start of Studies: Computer Sciences at Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
1994 - 2002 Goethegymnasium Kelbra (High School)
Abschluss: Abitur

Awards

20/11/2014 Forschungspreis 2014 der Industrie- und Handelskammer Magdeburg

Dissertation (PhD Thesis)

Multimodal Automatic User Disposition Recognition in Human-Machine Interaction
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, 2013.

Research Interests

Engagement/Involvement, Multi-Party Interaction (HMI), Cognition, Speech Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neuronal Networks, Selected Issues of Theoretical Computer Sciences

Projects

(current) Projects

Term Project Title
Grant
2018-2020 IAIS - Intentionale, antizipatorische, interaktive Systeme (PI of subproject) EFRE (Grant Number ZS/2017/10/88785)
2016-2019 Mova3D - Multimodaler Omnidirektionaler 3D-Sensor für die VerhaltensAnalyse von Personen (Co-PI in Part 8) BMBF (FKZ: 03ZZ0431H)
Publications

2022

Book chapter

Times and turns in stimulating meetings

Böck, Ronald

In: Konferenz: 33. Konferenz "Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung", Sonderborg, 2.-4. März 2022, Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2022 - Dresden: TUDpress; Weston, Heather . - 2022, S. 89-96 - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; 103)

Analysis of phonetic/prosodic features in interaction stages

Duran, Daniel; Böck, Ronald

In: Konferenz: 33. Konferenz "Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung", Sonderborg, 2.-4. März 2022, Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2022 - Dresden: TUDpress; Weston, Heather . - 2022, S. 67-73 - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; 103)

Peer-reviewed journal article

Behaviour of true artificial peers

Weißkirchen, Norman; Böck, Ronald

In: Multimodal technologies and interaction - Basel: MDPI, Bd. 6 (2022), 8, insges. 21 S.

2021

Book chapter

Pseudo-Labelling and Transfer Learning Based Speech Emotion Recognition

Venkateswaran, Siddarth; Böck, Ronald; Keßler, Thomas; Krini, Ossmane

In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2021 / Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung , 2021 - Dresden : TUDpress, S. 19-26 [32. Konferenz Elektrische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2021, Berlin, 3. - 5. März 2021]

Peer-reviewed journal article

Affects in groups - a review on automated affect processing and estimation in groups

Böck, Ronald

In: IEEE signal processing magazine/ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - New York, NY: IEEE, Bd. 38 (2021), 6, S. 74-83

Article in conference proceedings

On the sound of successful meetings - how speech prosody predicts meeting performance

Niebuhr, Oliver; Böck, Ronald; Allen, Joseph A.

In: ResearchGATE - Cambridge, Mass.: ResearchGATE Corp. . - 2021

Comparison of head and body movement patterns in naturalistic human-machine interaction

Bützer, Jannes; Böck, Ronald

In: 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) - IEEE . - 2021, insges. 7 S.

2020

Book chapter

Towards true artificial peers

Weißkirchen, Norman; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS): Sept 7-9, 2020, Rome, Italy/ IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems - [Piscataway, NJ]: IEEE . - 2020, insges. 5 S.

Habilitation

Anticipate the user - multimodal analyses in human-machine interaction towards group interactions

Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Dresden: TUDpress, 2020, xxiii, 354 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme, 24 cm - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; Band 98)

Editor

Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020 - Tagungsband der 31. Konferenz Magdeburg : Magdeburg, 4.-6. März 2020

Wendemuth, Andreas; Böck, Ronald; Siegert, Ingo

In: Dresden: TUDpress, 2020, XI, 288 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme, 24 cm x 17 cm - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; Band 95)

2019

Abstract

Experimentelles Design zur Induktion von Emotionalität in Sprache und Gangverhalten im häuslichen Umfeld

Höbel-Müller, Juliane; Böck, Ronald; Perez Grassi, Ana Cecilia; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 8. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme: Verstehen, Beschreiben und Gestalten Kognitiver (Technischer) Systeme: Duisburg, 26.-28. März 2019 - Duisburg: Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2019; Eyssel, Friederike . - 2019, S. 22-23

Book chapter

Modelling contexts for interactions in dynamic open-world scenarios

Böck, Ronald; Wrede, Britta

In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)/ IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - [Piscataway, NJ]: IEEE, 2019 . - 2019, S. 1475-1480[Konferenz: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE SMC 2019, 6-9 October 2019, Bari Italy]

Generative adversarial networks and simulated+unsupervised learning in affect recognition from speech

Krokotsch, Tilman; Böck, Ronald

In: 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) - IEEE, 2019 . - 2019, insges. 7 S.[Konferenz: 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII, Cambridge, 03. - 06. September 2019]

Anticipating the user - acoustic disposition recognition in intelligent interactions

Böck, Ronald; Egorow, Olga; Höbel-Müller, Juliane; Requardt, Alicia Flores; Siegert, Ingo; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Innovations in big data mining and embedded knowledge - Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019; Esposito, Anna . - 2019, S. 203-233 - (Intelligent systems reference library; volume 159)

2018

Book chapter

Acoustic detection of consecutive stages of spoken interaction based on speaker-group specific features

Böck, Ronald; Egorow, Olga; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018: Tagungsband der 29. Konferenz, Ulm, 7.-9. März 2018/ Konferenz "Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung" - Dresden: TUDpress, 2018; Berton, André . - 2018, S. 247-254[Konferenz: 29. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018, Ulm, 7. - 10. März; Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 252-254]

International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (Workshop Summary)

Böck, Ronald; Bonin, Francesca; Campbell, Nick; Poppe, Ronald

In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction: ICMI'18 : Boulder, CO, USA, October 16 - 20, 2018 - New York, NY: ACM, 2018 . - 2018, S. 666-667[Konferenz: 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, CO, USA, October 16 - 20, 2018, ICMI'18]

Recognition of emotional speech with convolutional neural networks by means of spectral estimates

Weißkirchen, Norman; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW): 23-26 Oct. 2017/ International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition - [Piscataway, NJ]: IEEE, 2017; International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (5.:2017) . - 2018, S. 50-55[Copyright: 2017; Konferenz: Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos, ACIIW, San Antonio, Tex., 23 - 26 October 2017]

The effect of emotional speech on relative speaker discrimination

Höbel-Müller, Juliane; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018: Tagungsband der 29. Konferenz, Ulm, 7.-9. März 2018/ Konferenz "Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung" - Dresden: TUDpress, 2018; Berton, André . - 2018, S. 216-223[Konferenz: 29. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018, Ulm, 7. - 10. März; Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 222-223]

Significance of feature differences in the distinction of mental-load

Weißkirchen, Norman; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: SMC 2018 / IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics , 2018 - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE ; Hata, Yutaka, S. 2604-2609 [Konferenz: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC, Miyazaki, Japan, 7-10 October 2018]

Intention-based anticipatory interactive systems

Wendemuth, Andreas; Böck, Ronald; Nürnberger, Andreas; Hamadi, Ayoub; Brechmann, André; Ohl, Frank W.

In: SMC 2018: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics$d7-10 October 2018, Miyazaki, Japan : proceedings/ IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2018; Hata, Yutaka . - 2018, S. 2579-2584[Konferenz: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC, Miyazaki, Japan, 7-10 October 2018]

Recognition of human movement patterns during a human-agent interaction

Böck, Ronald

In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction - MA3HMI 2018 : in conjunction with ICMI 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA: MA3HMI 2018 : in conjunction with ICMI 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA - New York, NY: ACM, 2018; Böck, Ronald . - 2018, S. 33-37[Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, MA3HMI 2018, Boulder, CO, USA, October 16, 2018]

Peer-reviewed journal article

Using a PCA-based dataset similarity measure to improve cross-corpus emotion recogniton

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Computer speech and language - London: Academic Press, 1986 . - 2018, insges. 31 S.

Toward a self-adapting resource-restricted voice-based classification of naturalistic interaction stages

Weißkirchen, Norman; Böck, Ronald

In: Kognitive Systeme - Duisburg: DuEPublico, Duisburg-Essen Publication Online, Universität Duisburg-Essen . - 2018, 1, S. 1-8

Editor

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction - MA3HMI 2018 : in conjunction with ICMI 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Böck, Ronald; Bonin, Francesca; Campbell, Nick; Poppe, Ronald

In: New York, NY: ACM, 2018, 1 Online-RessourceKongress: International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction 4 (Boulder, CO, USA : 2018.10.16)

2017

Book chapter

Speaker-group specific acoustic differences in consecutive stages of spoken interaction

Böck, Ronald; Egorow, Olga; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2017: Tagungsband der 28. Konferenz Saarbrücken, 15. - 17. März 2017 / Jürgen Trouvain ; Ingmar Steiner und Bern Möbius (Hrsg.): Tagungsband der 28. Konferenz Saarbrücken, 15. - 17. März 2017 - Dresden: TUDpress Verlag der Wissenschaften GmbH, 2017; Trouvain, Jürgen . - 2017, S. 211-218[Kongress: 28. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Saarbrücken, 15. - 17. März, 2017]

Accelerating manual annotation of filled pauses by automatic pre-selection

Egorow, Olga; Lotz, Alicia Flores; Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Krüger, Julia; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 2017 International Conference on Companion Technology (ICCT): 11-13 Sept. 2017/ International Conference on Companion Technology - [Piscataway, NJ]: IEEE, 2017; International Conference on Companion Technology (2.:2017) . - 2017, insges. 6 S.[Konferenz: 2017 International Conference on Companion Technology (ICCT), Ulm, Germany, 11.-13. September 2017]

Vom technischen System und seiner widersprüchlichen Umwelt

Böck, Ronald

In: Von Schildkröten und Lügnern: Paradoxien und Antinomien in den Wissenschaften - Münster: mentis, 2018 . - 2017, S. 211-223

Comparative study on normalisation in emotion recognition from speech

Böck, Ronald; Egorow, Olga; Siegert, Ingo; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Intelligent human computer interaction / IHCI , 2017 - Cham : Springer ; Horain, Patrick, S. 189-201 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 10688)

Multimodal affect recognition in the context of human-computer interaction for companion-systems

Schwenker, Friedhelm; Böck, Ronald; Schels, Martin; Meudt, Sascha; Siegert, Ingo; Glodek, Michael; Kächele, Markus; Schmidt-Wack, Miriam; Thiam, Patrick; Wendemuth, Andreas; Krell, Gerald

In: Companion technology - Cham : Springer ; Biundo-Stephan, Susanne *1955-* . - 2017, S. 387-408

Emotion recognition from speech

Wendemuth, Andreas; Vlasenko, Bogdan; Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Schwenker, Friedhelm; Palm, Günther

In: Companion technology - Cham : Springer ; Biundo-Stephan, Susanne *1955-* . - 2017, S. 409-428

Recognition of emotional speech with convolutional neural networks by means of spectral estimates

Weißkirchen, Norman; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACII) ; Part 2 - IEEE, 2017; Part 2 . - 2017, S. 50-55[Konferenz: 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos, ACII, San Antonio, Texas, 23. - 26.10.2017]

Emotion recognition from speech using representation learning in extreme learning machines

Glüge, Stefan; Böck, Ronald; Ott, Thomas

In: Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence. Volume 1: November 1-3, 2017, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - [Setúbal]: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda., 2017; Sabourin, Christophe . - 2017, S. 179-185[Konferenz: 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, IJCCI 2017, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, November 1-3, 2017]

2016

Book chapter

Multimodale, dialogische Interaktion in der Industrie - auf dem Weg zur Industrie 5.0

Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 3D SENSATION - transdisziplinäre Perspektiven: innteract conference - Chemnitz: Verlag aw&l Wissenschaft und Praxis, 2016 . - 2016, S. 392-401[Kongress: innteract conference 2016, Chemnitz, 23. - 24. Juni, 2016]

Akustische Marker für eine verbesserte Situations- und Intentionserkennung von technischen Assistenzsystemen

Siegert, Ingo; Lotz, Alicia Flores; Egorow, Olga; Böck, Ronald; Schega, Lutz; Tornow, Michael; Thiers, Angelina; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Technische Unterstützungssysteme, die die Menschen wirklich wollen: Zweite Transdisziplinäre Konferenz : Hamburg 2016 - Hamburg: Laboratorium Fertigungstechnik, smartASSIST, Helmut Schmidt Universität$, S. 465-474[Kongress: 2. Transdisziplinäre Konferenz "Technische Unterstützungssysteme, die die Menschen wirklich wollen", Hamburg, 2016]

Article in conference proceedings

"Do you like a cup of coffee?" - the CASIA coffee house corpus

Yang, Minghao; Böck, Ronald; Dawei, Zhang; Gao, Tingli; Chao, Linlin; Hao, Li; Tao, Jianhua

In: Multimodal Corpora: Computer vision and language processing (MMC 2016) - ELRA, 2016; Edlund, Jens . - 2016, S. 13-16[Kongress: MMC 2016, Portorož, 2016.05.24]

2015

Book chapter

Recognising emotional evolution from speech

Böck, Ronald; Siegert, Ingo

In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies - New York, NY: ACM, 2015; Hartmann, Kim . - 2015, S. 13-18Kongress: ERM4CT'15 17 (Seattle, USA : 2015.11.09-13)

Disposition recognition from spontaneous speech towards a combination with co-speech gestures

Böck, Ronald; Bergmann, Kirsten; Jaecks, Petra

In: Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction / Böck , Ronald - Cham [u.a.] : Springer ; Böck, Ronald . - 2015, S. 57-66 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8757)

ERM4CT 2015: Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Systems

Hartmann, Kim; Siegert, Ingo; Schuller, Björn; Morency, Louis-Philippe; Salah, Albert Ali; Böck, Ronald

In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies - New York, NY: ACM, 2015; Hartmann, Kim . - 2015, S. 1-2Kongress: ERM4CT'15 17 (Seattle, USA : 2015.11.09-13)

Overlapping speech, utterance duration and affective content in HHI and HCI - an comparison

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Vlasenko, Bogdan; Ohnemus, Kerstin; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: CogInfoCom 2015 , 2015 - [Piscataway, NJ] : IEEE ; CogInfoCom (6.:2015), S. 83-88

ERM4CT chairs' welcome

Hartmann, Kim; Siegert, Ingo; Schuller, Björn; Morency, Louis-Philippe; Salah, Albert Ali; Böck, Ronald

In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies - New York, NY : ACM ; Hartmann, Kim . - 2015, S. III

Peer-reviewed journal article

Probabilistic breadth as an evaluation measure of gaussian mixture models used for acoustic emotion states

Böck, Ronald; Siegert, Ingo; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Kognitive Systeme - Duisburg: DuEPublico, Duisburg-Essen Publication Online, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2013 . - 2015, 2, insges. 8 S.

Editor

Multimodal analyses enabling artificial agents in human-machine interaction - second international workshop, MA3HMI 2014, held in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014 ; revised selected papers

Böck, Ronald; Bonin, Francesca; Campbell, Nick; Poppe, Ronald

In: Cham [u.a.]: Springer, 2015, Online-Ressource (XII, 108 S.) - (Lecture notes in computer science; 8757; Lecture notes in artificial intelligence), ISBN: 978-3-319-15557-9 Kongress: Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 15 Singapore 2014.09.14-18

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies

Hartmann, Kim; Siegert, Ingo; Schuller, Björn; Morency, Louis-Philippe; Sala, Albert Ali; Böck, Ronald

In: New York, NY: ACM, 2015, Online Ressource (PDF-Datei)Kongress: International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies 17 (Seattle, USA : 2015.11.09-13)

Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction - Second International Workshop, MA3HMI 2014, Held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Böck, Ronald; Bonin, Francesca; Campbell, Nick; Poppe, Ronald

In: Cham [u.a.]: Springer, 2015, Online-Ressource (XII, 109 p. 29 illus, online resource) - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8757; SpringerLink; Bücher), ISBN: 978-3-319-15557-9 Kongress: Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 15 Singapore 2014.09.14-18

Article in conference proceedings

Probabilistic breadth used in evaluation of resulting gaussian mixture models

Böck, Ronald; Siegert, Ingo; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 4. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme 2015: Mensch, Teams, Systeme und Automaten: proceedings - Bielefeld, 2015 . - 2015, insges. 8 S.Kongress: Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme 4 (Bielefeld : 2015.03.23-25)

Functional analysis of pitch contours for disposition recognition from speech

Prylipko, Dmytro; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 4. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme 2015: Mensch, Teams, Systeme und Automaten: proceedings - Bielefeld, 2015 . - 2015, insges. 6 S.Kongress: Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme 4 (Bielefeld : 2015.03.23-25)

Exploring dataset similarities using PCA-based feature selection

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Vlasenko, Bogdan; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 2015 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII): 21 - 24 Sept. 2015, Xi'an - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2015 . - 2015, S. 387-393

2014

Book chapter

Investigating the form-function-relation of the discourse particle “hm” in a naturalistic human-computer interaction

Siegert, Ingo; Prylipko, Dmytro; Hartmann, Kim; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Recent Advances of Neural Network Models and Applications / Bassis , Simone - Cham : Springer International Publishing ; Bassis, Simone . - 2014, S. 387-394 - (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; 26)

Peer-reviewed journal article

Modeling phonetic pattern variability in favor of the creation of robust emotion classifiers for real-life applications

Vlasenko, Bogdan; Prylipko, Dmytro; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Computer speech and language - London: Academic Press, 1986, Bd. 28.2014, 2, S. 483-500

Learning long-term dependencies in segmented-memory recurrent neural networks with backpropagation of error

Glüge, Stefan; Böck, Ronald; Palm, Günther; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Neurocomputing: an international journal - Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1989, Bd. 141.2014, S. 54-64

Investigation of speaker group-dependent modelling for recognition of affective states from speech

Siegert, Ingo; Philippou-Hübner, David; Hartmann, Kim; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Cognitive Computation - New York, NY: Springer, 2009, Bd. 6.2014, 4, S. 892-913

Article in conference proceedings

EmoGest: investigating the impact of emotions on spontaneous co-speech gestures

Bergmann, Kirsten; Böck, Ronald; Jaecks, Petra

In: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Multimodal Corpora: Combining Applied and Basic Research Targets: LREC 2014 ; Reykjavik, 27. Mai 2014 / eds.: Jens Edlund; Dirk Heylen; Patrizia Paggio: LREC 2014 ; Reykjavik, 27. Mai 2014 - Reykjavik, 2014; Edlund, Jens . - 2014, S. 13-16

2013

Book chapter

Auto-encoder pre-training of segmented-memory recurrent neural networks

Glüge, Stefan; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Proceedings: Bruges, Belgium, April 24 - 25 - 26, 2013 / [organised in collaboration with: UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve); KULeuven (Katholiek Universiteit Leuven). Ed.: Michel Verleysen]: Bruges, Belgium, April 24 - 25 - 26, 2013 - Louvain-la-Neuve: Ciaco, 2013 . - 2013, S. 29Kongress: ESANN 21 (Bruges : 2013.04.24-26)

Dempster-shafer theory with smoothness

Böck, Ronald; Glüge, Stefan; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making / Qin , Zengchang - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer ; Qin, Zengchang . - 2013, S. 13-22 - (Lecture notes in computer science; 8032) Kongress: IUKM Beijing 2013.07.12-14

The influence of context knowledge for multi-modal affective annotation

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Human-computer interaction ; Pt. 5:Towards intelligent and implicit interaction - Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2013 . - 2013, S. 381-390 - (Lecture notes in computer science; 8008)Kongress: HCI International 15 (Las Vegas, Nev. : 2013.07.21-26)

Audio-based pre-classification for semi-automatic facial expression coding

Böck, Ronald; Limbrecht-Ecklundt, Kerstin; Siegert, Ingo; Walter, Steffen; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Human-computer interaction ; Pt. 5:Towards intelligent and implicit interaction - Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2013 . - 2013, S. 301-309 - (Lecture notes in computer science; 8008)Kongress: HCI International 15 (Las Vegas, Nev. : 2013.07.21-26)

Annotation and classification of changes of involvement in group conversation

Böck, Ronald; Glüge, Stefan; Siegert, Ingo; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2013 - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, S. 803-808

Peer-reviewed journal article

Inter-rater reliability for emotion annotation in human-computer interaction - comparison and methodological improvements

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Journal on multimodal user interfaces - Berlin: Springer, 2007 . - 2013

Dissertation

Multimodal automatic user disposition recognition in human-machine interaction

Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas; Diedrich, Christian

In: Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Diss., 2013: Magdeburg, XVII, 206 S., graph. Darst.

Editor

Joint proceedings of the 2013th T2CT and CCGL workshops

Böck, Ronald; Degens, Nick; Heylen, Dirk; Louchart, Sandy; Minker, Wolfgang; Morency, Louis-Philippe; Nazir, Asad; Schwenker, Friedhelm; Siegert, Ingo

In: Magdeburg: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 2013, 1 CD-R, 12 cmKongress: Workshop "Techniques Towards Companion Technologies", T2CT 13 (Edinburgh, UK : 2013.08.28)

2012

Book chapter

Modeling users' mood state to improve human-machine-interaction

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Cognitive behavioural systems - Berlin [u.a.]: Springer; Esposito, Anna . - 2012, S. 273-279 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 7403)Kongress: COST Dresden : 2011.02.21-26

The Influence of Context Knowledge for Multimodal Annotation

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Joint proceedings of the IVA 2012 workshops - Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012 - Magdeburg: Univ. . - 2012, S. 25-31Kongress: IVA 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif. : 2012.09.12-15)

How do we react to context? - annotation of individual and group engagement in a video corpus

Bonin, Francesca; Böck, Ronald; Campbell, Nick

In: 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE . - 2012, S. 899-903Kongress: SocialCom/PASSAT 2012 (Amsterdam : 2012.09.03-05)

Extension of backpropagation through time for segmented-memory recurrent neural networks

Glüge, Stefan; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence: Barcelona, Spain, 5 - 7 October 2012 / sponsored by INSTICC, Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication. [Ed. by Agostinho Rosa, ...] - [S.l.]: SciTePress; Rosa, Agostinho . - 2012, S. 451-456Kongress: IJCCI 4 (Barcelona, Spain : 2012.10.05-07)

Intraindividual and interindividual multimodal emotion analyses in human-machine-interaction

Böck, Ronald; Glüge, Stefan; Wendemuth, Andreas; Limbrecht, Kerstin; Walter, Steffen; Hrabal, David; Traue, Harald C.

In: 2012 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2012): New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 6 - 8 March 2012 - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2012 . - 2012, S. 59-64Kongress: CogSIMA (New Orleans, La. : 2012.03.06-08)

Investigation of hierarchical classification for simultaneous gender and age recognition

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Philippou-Hübner, David; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2012 - Dresden: TUDpress Verl. der Wiss.; Wolff, Matthias . - 2012, S. 58 - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; 64)Kongress: Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 23 (Cottbus : 2012.08.29-31)

Combining mimic and prosodic analyses for user disposition classification

Böck, Ronald; Limbrecht, Kerstin; Siegert, Ingo; Glüge, Stefan; Walter, Steffen; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2012 - Dresden: TUDpress Verl. der Wiss.; Wolff, Matthias . - 2012, S. 220 - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; 64)Kongress: Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 23 (Cottbus : 2012.08.29-31)

Applying the speaking rate in a hierarchical classifier for emotion recognition from speech

Philippou-Hübner, David; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2012 - Dresden: TUDpress Verl. der Wiss.; Wolff, Matthias . - 2012, S. 228 - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; 64)Kongress: Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 23 (Cottbus : 2012.08.29-31)

Multi-modal classifier-fusion for the classification of emotional states in WOZ scenarios

Schels, Martin; Glodek, Michael; Meudt, Sascha; Schmidt, Miriam; Hrabal, David; Böck, Ronald; Walter, Steffen; Schwenker, Friedhelm

In: 2012 AHFE International Conference - USA Publ. . - 2012, insges. 10 S.Kongress: AHFE Conference 4 (San Francisco : 2012.07.21-25)

The performance of the speaking rate parameter in emotion recognition from speech

Philippou-Hübner, David; Vlasenko, Bogdan; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Piscataway: IEEE . - 2012, S. 248-253Kongress: ICME (Melbourne, Australia : 2012.07.09-13)

Editor

Joint proceedings of the IVA 2012 workshops - Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012

Böck, Ronald; Bonin, Francesca; Campbell, Nick; Edlund, Jens; Kok, Iwan; Poppe, Ronald; Traum, David

In: Magdeburg: Univ., 2012, 1 CD-ROM (PDF-Datei: 108 S.), 12 cmKongress: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif. : 2012.09.12-15)

Joint proceedings of the IVA 2012 workshops - [Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3) and Real-Time Conversations with Virtual Agents (RCVA)] as part of 12th international conference, IVA 2012, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, September, 12-15, 2012

Böck, Ronald; Bonin, Francesca; Campbell, Nick; Edlund, Jens; Kok, Iwan de; Poppe, Ronald; Traum, David

In: Magdeburg: OvGU, 2012; 108 S.: 1 CD-ROM, ISBN 978-3-940961-83-9Kongress: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents; 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif.) : 2012.09.12-15IVA; 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif.) : 2012.09.12-15Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3); 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif.) : 2012.09.15Real-Time Conversations with Virtual Agents (RCVA); 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif.) : 2012.09.15

2011

Abstract

Incorporation of a mood-model to improve user-disposition prediction from emotion recognition

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Program and abstracts of the COST 2102 Final Conference: held in conjunction with the 4th COST 2102 International Training School on Cognitive Behavioural Systems ; February 21 - 25, 2011, Dresden, Germany / Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Akustik und Sprachkommunikation. [Ed. by Anna Esposito ...]: held in conjunction with the 4th COST 2102 International Training School on Cognitive Behavioural Systems ; February 21 - 25, 2011, Dresden, Germany - Dresden: Techn. Univ., Inst. für Akustik und Sprachkommunikation, 2011; Esposito, Anna . - 2011, S. 34[Kongress: COST 2102 Final Conference, Dresden, Germany, February 21 - 25, 2011]

Book chapter

Appropriate emotional labelling of non-acted speech using basic emotions, geneva emotion wheel and self assessment manikins

Siegert, Ingo; Böck, Ronald; Philippou-Hübner, David; Vlasenko, Bogdan; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo: ICME 2011 ; electronic proceedings - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2011; Chen, Irene, 2011, paper 419, insgesamt 6 S.Kongress: ICME (Barcelona, Spain : 2011.07.11-15)[Beitrag auf USB-Stick]

Vowels formants analysis allows straightforward detection of high arousal emotions

Vlasenko, Bogdan; Philippou-Hübner, David; Prylipko, Dmytro; Böck, Ronald; Siegert, Ingo; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo: ICME 2011 ; electronic proceedings - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2011; Chen, Irene, 2011, paper 631, insgesamt 6 S.Kongress: ICME (Barcelona, Spain : 2011.07.11-15)[Beitrag auf USB-Stick]

A processing tool for emotionally coloured speech

Böck, Ronald; Siegert, Ingo; Vlasenko, Bogdan; Wendemuth, Andreas; Haase, Matthias; Lange, Julia

In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo: ICME 2011 ; electronic proceedings - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2011; Chen, Irene, 2011, paper 895, insgesamt 1 S.Kongress: ICME (Barcelona, Spain : 2011.07.11-15)[Beitrag auf USB-Stick]

Ikannotate - a tool for labelling, transcription, and annotation of emotionally coloured speech

Böck, Ronald; Siegert, Ingo; Haase, Matthias; Lange, Julia; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Affective computing and intelligent interaction ; Pt. 1 - Heidelberg [u.a.]: Springer, 2011; Pt. 1 . - 2011, S. 25-34 - (Lecture notes in computer science; 6974)Kongress: ACII 4 (Memphis, TN : 2011.10.09-12)

Article in conference proceedings

Segmented-memory recurrent neural networks versus Hidden Markov Models in emotion recognition from speech

Glüge, Stefan; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: IC3K 2011: 3rd International Joint Conference on Knowledge, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Paris, France, 26 - 29 October, 2011 - Paris, 2011 . - 2011, S. 308-315

Original article in peer-reviewed periodical-type series

Multimodal emotion classification in naturalistic user behavior

Walter, Steffen; Scherer, Stefan; Schels, Martin; Glodek, Michael; Hrabal, David; Schmidt, Miriam; Böck, Ronald; Limbrecht, Kerstin; Traue, Harald C.; Schwenker, Friedhelm

In: Human-computer interaction ; Pt. 3: Towards mobile and intelligent interaction environments. - Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer, S. 603-611, 2011 - (Lecture notes in computer science; 6763)Kongress: HCI International; 14 (Orlando, Fla.) : 2011.07.09-14

2010

Book chapter

Determining optimal signal features and parameters for HMM-based emotion classification

Böck, Ronald; Hübner, David; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: 15th IEEE Mediterranian Electromechanical Conference - IEEE . - 2010, S. 1586-1590Kongress: Melecon 2010 15 (Valletta, Malta : 2010.04.25-28)

Adaptive beamforming in speaker diarization

Grosser, Tobias; Elsafadi, Aoys; Hübner, David; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Proceedings - Berlin . - 2010, insges. 9 S.

Implicit sequence learning - a case study with a 4-2-4 encoder simple recurrent network

Glüge, Stefan; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: IJCCI 2010 - Setúbal: SciTePress . - 2010, S. 279-288Kongress: ICNC 2010 (Valencia, Spain) ; 2010.10.24-26

Article in conference proceedings

Modeling affected user behavior during human-machine interaction

Vlasenko, Bogdan; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference Speech prosody 2010 - Chicago . - 2010, insges. 4 S.Kongress: International Conference on Speech Prosody 5 (Chicago, Ill. : 2010.05.11-14)

2009

Book chapter

Application of HMMs for the recognition of emotional sequences in the valence-arousal space

Hübner, David; Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Tagungsband der 20. Konferenz, Dresden, 21. bis 23. September 2009 - Dresden: TUDpress; Hoffmann, Rüdiger . - 2009, S. 200-206 - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; 53)Kongress: ESSV 20 (Dresden : 2009.09.21-23)

On the influences of feature extration in single emotion recognition in naive vs. acted speech

Böck, Ronald; Hübner, David; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Tagungsband der 20. Konferenz, Dresden, 21. bis 23. September 2009 - Dresden: TUDpress; Hoffmann, Rüdiger . - 2009, S. 207-214 - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; 53)Kongress: ESSV 20 (Dresden : 2009.09.21-23)

Article in conference proceedings

Knowledge engineering with didactic knowledge first steps towards and ultimate goal

Knauf, Rainer; Sakurai, Yoshitaka; Tsuruta, Setsuo; Böck, Ronald

In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference/ Florida AI Research Society - Menlo Park, Calif.: AAAI Press; Lane, H. Chad . - 2009, insges. 6 S.Kongress: International FLAIRS Conference 22 (Sanibel Island, Fla. : 2009.05.19-21)

2008

Book chapter

Knowledge mining for supporting learning processes

Knauf, Rainer; Böck, Ronald; Sakurai, Yoshitaka; Tsuruta, Setsuo

In: 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: SMC 2008 ; 12 - 15 October, 2008, Singapore ; conference digest - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Service Center . - 2008, S. 2615-1621Kongress: SMC 2008 (Singapore : 2008.10.12-15)

Emotional speech in robot controlling

Böck, Ronald; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Emotion-, Speech- and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers - Düsseldorf, Germany, May 16 - 17, 2008 ; 3rd joined research workshop between Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Applied Sciences FH Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf, Germany, May 16 - 17, 2008 ; 3rd joined research workshop between Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Applied Sciences FH Düsseldorf/ Workshop on Emotion, Speech and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers - Magdeburg: Univ.; Wendemuth, Andreas . - 2008, S. 29-37Kongress: Workshop on Emotion-, Speech- and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers 3 (Düsseldorf, Germany : 2008.05.16-17)

A priori evaluation & refinement of curricula by data mining over storyboards

Knauf, Rainer; Böck, Ronald; Sakurai, Yoshitaka; Tsuruta, Setsuo

In: Proceedings of the twenty-first FLAIRS conference: Coconut Grove, Florida, USA, 15 - 17 May 2008 - AAAI Press . - 2008, S. 335-340Kongress: FLAIRS 21 (Coconut Grove, Fla. : 2008.05.15-17)

Survey of state-of-the-art speech recognition technology

Grosser, Tobias; Böck, Ronald; Hübner, David; Wendemuth, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Emotion-, Speech- and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers - Düsseldorf, Germany, May 16 - 17, 2008 ; 3rd joined research workshop between Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Applied Sciences FH Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf, Germany, May 16 - 17, 2008 ; 3rd joined research workshop between Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Applied Sciences FH Düsseldorf/ Workshop on Emotion, Speech and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers - Magdeburg: Univ.; Wendemuth, Andreas . - 2008, S. 73-78Kongress: Workshop on Emotion-, Speech- and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers 3 (Düsseldorf, Germany : 2008.05.16-17)

Methods for path evaluation in dynamic storyboards

Böck, Ronald; Knauf, Rainer; Sakurai, Yoshitaka; Tsuruta, Setsuo

In: Proceedings: Santander, Spain, 1 - 5 July 2008 / sponsored by IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. Ed.: Paloma Díaz ...: Santander, Spain, 1 - 5 July 2008/ International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies - Los Alamitos, Calif. [u.a.]: IEEE Computer Soc.; Díaz, Paloma . - 2008, S. 614-616Kongress: ICALT 8 (Santander, Spain : 2008.07.01-05)

2007

Book chapter

Using storyboarding and data mining to estimate success chances of curricula

Knauf, Rainer; Böck, Ronald; Sakurai, Yoshitaka; Dohi, Shinishi; Tsuruta, Setsuo

In: IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, CELDA 2007 - IADIS; Kinshuk . - 2007, S. 235-242Kongress: CELDA 2007 (Algarve, Portugal : 2007.12.07-09)

Accepted Publications

Accepted Publications

Norman Weißkirchen, Ronald Böck
Towards a Self-Adaption Resource-Restricted Voice-Based Classification of Naturalistic Interaction Stages
Accepted in: Proceedings of the 7. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme 2015: Mensch, Teams, Systeme und Automaten, June 21-22, 2018, Braunschweig, Germany, 2018

Editor and Talks

Editor

Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020 - Tagungsband der 31. Konferenz
Eds: Andreas Wendemuth, Ronald Böck, Ingo Siegert
Series: Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation, Issue 95

TUDpress, Dresden, Germany, 2020.

MA3HMI 2016: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction.
Eds.: Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Ronald Poppe
ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2016.

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies.
Eds: Kim Hartmann, Ingo Siegert, Björn Schuller, Louis-Philippe Morency, Albert Ali Salah and Ronald Böck
ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2015.

Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction,
Eds: Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Ronald Poppe,
Series: Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence,
Issue: 8757,
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2014.

Joint Proceedings  of the 2013th T2CT and CCGL Workshops,
Eds: Ronald Böck, Nick Degens, Dirk Heylen, Sandy Louchart, Wolfgang Minker, Louis-Philippe Morency, Asad Nazir, Friedhelm Schwenker, Ingo Siegert,
Edinburgh, UK, August 28, 2013
Publisher: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg,
ISBN:  978-3-940961-99-0.

Proceedings of the Workshop: click here (PDF)
Joint Proceedings  of the IVA 2012 Workshops,
Eds: Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Jens Edlund, Iwan de Kok, Ronald Poppe, David Traum,
Santa Cruz, USA, September 15, 2012
Publisher: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg,
ISBN:  978-3-940961-83-9.

Journals/Special Issues

Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
Special Issue: From Multimodal Analysis to Real-Time Interactions with Virtual Agents
Editors: Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Jens Edlund, Iwan de Kok, Ronald Poppe, David Traum

Talks/Invited Talks/Keynotes

08/2019 Automatic Speech Recognition in Relation to Enhanced Human-Machine Interaction (Invited Talk at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
08/2019 Multimodal Analyses of User Behaviour in Ambient Assisted Living (Invited Talk at University Cottbus-Senftenberg)
07/2019 Panelist (with Presentation) at 2019 INGRoup Conference
06/2017 Companion Technology for Cognitive Technical Systems - and Related Projects (Invited Talk at University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany)
06/2016 Vom technischen System und seiner widersprüchlichen Umwelt (Talk in the Lecture Series "Von Schildkröten und Lügnern. - Paradoxien und Antinomien in der Wissenschaft")
11/2015 Involvement and companion-like Agents?! (Invited Talk at Institute of Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, USA)
09/2015 Companion Systems in Human-Machine Interaction - Enhanced Cognitive Technical Devices (Invited Talk at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, leider ausgefallen)
07/2013 From Technical Systems to Companion-like Assistants (Invited Talk at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Workshops and Memberships

Organised Workshops

4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2018)
Workshop at ICMI 2018 (International Conference on Multimodal Interaction), Boulder, USA
October 16, 2018

3rd International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2016)
Workshop at ICMI 2016 (International Conference on Multimodal Interaction), Tokyo, Japan
November 16, 2016

2nd International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling in Human-Computer Interaction Systems (ERM4HCI 2014)
Workshop at ICMI 2014 (International Conference on Multimodal Interaction), Istanbul, Turkey
November 16, 2014

2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2014)
Workshop at INTERSPEECH 2014 (15th Annual Conference of International Speech Communication Association), Singapore
September 14, 2014

1st International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling in Human-Computer Interaction Systems (ERM4HCI 2013)
Workshop at ICMI 2013 (International Conference on Multimodal Interaction), Sydney, Australia
December 13, 2013

1st International Workshop on Techniques Towards Companion Technologies (T2CT 2013)
Workshop at IVA 2013 (International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents), Edinburgh, UK
August 28, 2013

1st International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2012)
Workshop at IVA 2012 (International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents), Santa Cruz, USA
September 15, 2012

Special Sessions

Dynamics and Anticipation in Interactive Systems
Special Session at SMC 2019 (IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernatics), Bari, Italy
October, 2019 (exact date tba)

Intention-based Anticipatory Interactive Systems
Special Session at SMC 2018 (IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernatics), Miyazaki, Japan
October 9, 2018

Summer Schools

International Summer School on Companion Technology (ISSCT 2017) - Theory and Application
In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Companion Technology, Ulm, Germany
September 9-13, 2017

Conference Organisation

Conference Organisational Committee Membership

Tutorial Chair of the 6th International AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2015 (ACII 2015), Xian, PR China, September 21-25, 2015.

Program Committee Membership

Program Committee Member for the 2017 International Workshop on Deep Affective Learning and Context Modelling, Honolulu, USA, July 26, 2017.

Program Committee Member for the 2015 Multimodal Machine Learning Workshop, Montreal, Canada, December 11, 2015.

Program Committee Member for the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015), Seattle, USA, November 9-13, 2015.

Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Emotion for Sociable Robotics (ESR15), Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015.

Program Committee Member of the First International Workshop on Emotion for Sociable Agents (ESA14), Tsukuba, Japan, October 28, 2014.

Program Committee Member of the Second Workshop on Applications for Emotional Robots, Bielefeld, Germany, March 03, 2014.

Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaften (GK)
Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) (fka HUMAINE Association)

former memberships:

Member of the Transregional Research Collaboration Centre SFB-TRR 62 "Eine Companion-Technologie für kognitive technische Systeme"
Member of the Transregional Research Collaboration Centre's Graduate College SFB-TRR 62 (former Speaker of PhD Students)
SIGCHI 

Membership including Organisational Aspects

IEEE/SMC Young Professionals Subcommittee

Reviewer for Institutions/Grants:
Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

Reviewer for Journals (i.a.):
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Computer, Speech, and Language
Digital Signal Processing
Frontier in Human-System Interaction
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
Pattern Recognition Letters
Software and Systems

Teaching

Lectures

Summer Term: Mustererkennung I (Pattern Recognition I)

Winter Term: Kognitive Systeme (Cognitive Systems)

Last Modification: 19.08.2020 - Contact Person: Ronald Böck