Ronald Böck

Dr.- Ing. Ronald Böck
Institut für Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IIKT)
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
(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) |
2022
Begutachteter Zeitschriftenartikel
Behaviour of true artificial peers
In: Multimodal technologies and interaction - Basel: MDPI, Bd. 6 (2022), 8, insges. 21 S.
Buchbeitrag
Analysis of phonetic/prosodic features in interaction stages
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)
Times and turns in stimulating meetings
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)
2021
Artikel in Kongressband
Comparison of head and body movement patterns in naturalistic human-machine interaction
In: 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) - IEEE . - 2021, insges. 7 S.
On the sound of successful meetings - how speech prosody predicts meeting performance
In: ResearchGATE - Cambridge, Mass.: ResearchGATE Corp. . - 2021
Begutachteter Zeitschriftenartikel
Affects in groups - a review on automated affect processing and estimation in groups
In: IEEE signal processing magazine/ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - New York, NY: IEEE, Bd. 38 (2021), 6, S. 74-83
Buchbeitrag
Pseudo-labelling and transfer learning based speech emotion recognition
In: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2021: Tagungsband der 32. Konferenz Berlin, 4.-5. März 2021/ Möller, Sebastian - Dresden: TUDpress; Hillmann, Stefan . - 2021, S. 19-26
2020
Buchbeitrag
Towards true artificial peers
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
In: Dresden: TUDpress, 2020, xxiii, 354 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme, 24 cm - (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation; Band 98)
Herausgeberschaft
Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020 - Tagungsband der 31. Konferenz Magdeburg : Magdeburg, 4.-6. März 2020
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
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
Buchbeitrag
Anticipating the user - acoustic disposition recognition in intelligent interactions
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)
Generative adversarial networks and simulated+unsupervised learning in affect recognition from speech
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]
Modelling contexts for interactions in dynamic open-world scenarios
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
2018
Begutachteter Zeitschriftenartikel
Toward a self-adapting resource-restricted voice-based classification of naturalistic interaction stages
In: Kognitive Systeme - Duisburg: DuEPublico, Duisburg-Essen Publication Online, Universität Duisburg-Essen . - 2018, 1, S. 1-8
Using a PCA-based dataset similarity measure to improve cross-corpus emotion recogniton
In: Computer speech and language - London: Academic Press, 1986 . - 2018, insges. 31 S.
Buchbeitrag
Acoustic detection of consecutive stages of spoken interaction based on speaker-group specific features
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]
Intention-based anticipatory interactive systems
In: SMC 2018: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics$d7-10 October 2018, Miyazaki, Japan : proceedings/ IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2018; Hata, Yutaka . - 2018, S. 2579-2584
International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (Workshop Summary)
In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction: ICMI\'18 : Boulder, CO, USA, October 16 - 20, 2018 - New York, NY: ACM, 2018 . - 2018, S. 666-667
Recognition of emotional speech with convolutional neural networks by means of spectral estimates
In: 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW): 23-26 Oct. 2017/ International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition - [Piscataway, NJ]: IEEE, 2017; International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (5.:2017) . - 2018, S. 50-55
Recognition of human movement patterns during a human-agent interaction
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction - MA3HMI 2018 : in conjunction with ICMI 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA: MA3HMI 2018 : in conjunction with ICMI 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA - New York, NY: ACM, 2018; Böck, Ronald . - 2018, S. 33-37
Significance of feature differences in the distinction of mental-load
In: SMC 2018: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics$d7-10 October 2018, Miyazaki, Japan : proceedings/ IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2018; Hata, Yutaka . - 2018, S. 2604-2609
The effect of emotional speech on relative speaker discrimination
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]
Herausgeberschaft
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
In: New York, NY: ACM, 2018, 1 Online-Ressource
2017
Buchbeitrag
Accelerating manual annotation of filled pauses by automatic pre-selection
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.
Comparative study on normalisation in emotion recognition from speech
In: Intelligent Human Computer Interaction: 9th International Conference, IHCI 2017, Evry, France, December 11-13, 2017, Proceedings - Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017; Horian, Patrick . - 2017, S. 189-201 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 10688)
Emotion recognition from speech
In: Companion technology - a paradigm shift in human-technology interaction: a paradigm shift in human-technology interaction - Cham: Springer, 2017 . - 2017, S. 409-428
Emotion recognition from speech using representation learning in extreme learning machines
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
Multimodal affect recognition in the context of human-computer interaction for companion-systems
In: Companion technology - a paradigm shift in human-technology interaction: a paradigm shift in human-technology interaction - Cham: Springer, 2017 . - 2017, S. 387-408
Recognition of emotional speech with convolutional neural networks by means of spectral estimates
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]
Speaker-group specific acoustic differences in consecutive stages of spoken interaction
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]
Vom technischen System und seiner widersprüchlichen Umwelt
In: Von Schildkröten und Lügnern: Paradoxien und Antinomien in den Wissenschaften - Münster: mentis, 2018 . - 2017, S. 211-223
2016
Artikel in Kongressband
"Do you like a cup of coffee?" - the CASIA coffee house corpus
In: Multimodal Corpora: Computer vision and language processing (MMC 2016) - ELRA, 2016; Edlund, Jens . - 2016, S. 13-16
Buchbeitrag
Akustische Marker für eine verbesserte Situations- und Intentionserkennung von technischen Assistenzsystemen
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]
Multimodale, dialogische Interaktion in der Industrie - auf dem Weg zur Industrie 5.0
In: 3D SENSATION - transdisziplinäre Perspektiven: innteract conference - Chemnitz: Verlag aw&l Wissenschaft und Praxis, 2016 . - 2016, S. 392-401
2015
Artikel in Kongressband
Exploring dataset similarities using PCA-based feature selection
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
Functional analysis of pitch contours for disposition recognition from speech
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)
Probabilistic breadth used in evaluation of resulting gaussian mixture models
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)
Begutachteter Zeitschriftenartikel
Probabilistic breadth as an evaluation measure of gaussian mixture models used for acoustic emotion states
In: Kognitive Systeme - Duisburg: DuEPublico, Duisburg-Essen Publication Online, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2013 . - 2015, 2, insges. 8 S.
Buchbeitrag
Disposition recognition from spontaneous speech towards a combination with co-speech gestures
In: 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: second international workshop, MA3HMI 2014, held in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014 ; revised selected papers - Cham [u.a.]: Springer, 2015; Böck, Ronald . - 2015, S. 57-66 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8757)
ERM4CT 2015: Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Systems
In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies - New York, NY: ACM, 2015; Hartmann, Kim . - 2015, S. 1-2
Overlapping speech, utterance duration and affective content in HHI and HCI - an comparison
In: Proceedings of 6th IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom 2015) - Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2015 . - 2015, S. 83-88 ; Kongress: CogInfoCom 6 (Györ, Ungarn : 2015.10.19-21)
Recognising emotional evolution from speech
In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies - New York, NY: ACM, 2015; Hartmann, Kim . - 2015, S. 13-18
Herausgeberschaft
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
In: Cham [u.a.]: Springer, 2015, Online-Ressource (XII, 108 S.) - (Lecture notes in computer science; 8757; Lecture notes in artificial intelligence)
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies
In: New York, NY: ACM, 2015, Online Ressource (PDF-Datei)
2014
Artikel in Kongressband
EmoGest: investigating the impact of emotions on spontaneous co-speech gestures
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
Begutachteter Zeitschriftenartikel
Investigation of speaker group-dependent modelling for recognition of affective states from speech
In: Cognitive Computation - New York, NY: Springer, 2009, Bd. 6.2014, 4, S. 892-913
Learning long-term dependencies in segmented-memory recurrent neural networks with backpropagation of error
In: Neurocomputing: an international journal - Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1989, Bd. 141.2014, S. 54-64
Modeling phonetic pattern variability in favor of the creation of robust emotion classifiers for real-life applications
In: Computer speech and language - London: Academic Press, 1986, Bd. 28.2014, 2, S. 483-500
Buchbeitrag
Investigating the form-function-relation of the discourse particle hm in a naturalistic human-computer interaction
In: Recent Advances of Neural Network Models and Applications: Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop of the Italian Neural Networks Society (SIREN), May 23-25, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy/ Bassis - Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014; Bassis, Simone . - 2014, S. 387-394 - (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; 26)
2013
Begutachteter Zeitschriftenartikel
Inter-rater reliability for emotion annotation in human-computer interaction - comparison and methodological improvements
In: Journal on multimodal user interfaces - Berlin: Springer, 2007 . - 2013
Buchbeitrag
Annotation and classification of changes of involvement in group conversation
In: 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2013: 2-5 September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland ; proceedings - Los Alamitos [u.a.]: IEEE, 2013 . - 2013, S. 803-808 ; Kongress: ACII (Geneva, Switzerland : 2013.09.02-05)
Audio-based pre-classification for semi-automatic facial expression coding
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)
Auto-encoder pre-training of segmented-memory recurrent neural networks
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. 29 ; Kongress: ESANN 21 (Bruges : 2013.04.24-26)
Dempster-shafer theory with smoothness
In: Integrated uncertainty in knowledge modelling and decision making: international symposium, IUKM 2013, Beijing, China, July 12 - 14, 2013 ; proceedings - Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2013; Qin, Zengchang . - 2013, S. 13-22 - (Lecture notes in computer science; 8032)
The influence of context knowledge for multi-modal affective annotation
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)
Dissertation
Multimodal automatic user disposition recognition in human-machine interaction
In: Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Diss., 2013: Magdeburg, XVII, 206 S., graph. Darst.
Herausgeberschaft
Joint proceedings of the 2013th T2CT and CCGL workshops
In: Magdeburg: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 2013, 1 CD-R, 12 cm ; Kongress: Workshop \"Techniques Towards Companion Technologies\", T2CT 13 (Edinburgh, UK : 2013.08.28)
2012
Buchbeitrag
Applying the speaking rate in a hierarchical classifier for emotion recognition from speech
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)
Combining mimic and prosodic analyses for user disposition classification
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)
Extension of backpropagation through time for segmented-memory recurrent neural networks
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. 451-456 ; Kongress: IJCCI 4 (Barcelona, Spain : 2012.10.05-07)
How do we react to context? - annotation of individual and group engagement in a video corpus
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. 899-903 ; Kongress: SocialCom/PASSAT 2012 (Amsterdam : 2012.09.03-05)
Intraindividual and interindividual multimodal emotion analyses in human-machine-interaction
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. 59-64
Investigation of hierarchical classification for simultaneous gender and age recognition
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)
Modeling users' mood state to improve human-machine-interaction
In: Cognitive behavioural systems - Berlin [u.a.]: Springer; Esposito, Anna . - 2012, S. 273-279 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 7403)
Multi-modal classifier-fusion for the classification of emotional states in WOZ scenarios
In: 2012 AHFE International Conference - USA Publ. . - 2012, insges. 10 S. ; Kongress: AHFE Conference 4 (San Francisco : 2012.07.21-25)
The Influence of Context Knowledge for Multimodal Annotation
In: Joint proceedings of the IVA 2012 workshops - Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012 - Magdeburg: Univ. . - 2012, S. 25-31 ; Kongress: IVA 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif. : 2012.09.12-15)
The performance of the speaking rate parameter in emotion recognition from speech
In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Piscataway: IEEE . - 2012, S. 248-253 ; Kongress: ICME (Melbourne, Australia : 2012.07.09-13)
Herausgeberschaft
Joint proceedings of the IVA 2012 workshops - Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012
In: Magdeburg: Univ., 2012, 1 CD-ROM (PDF-Datei: 108 S.), 12 cm ; Kongress: 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
In: Magdeburg: OvGU, 2012; 108 S.: 1 CD-ROM, ISBN 978-3-940961-83-9 ; Kongress: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents; 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif.) : 2012.09.12-15 ; IVA; 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif.) : 2012.09.12-15 ; Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3); 12 (Santa Cruz, Calif.) : 2012.09.15 ; Real-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
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]
Artikel in Kongressband
Segmented-memory recurrent neural networks versus Hidden Markov Models in emotion recognition from speech
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
Buchbeitrag
A processing tool for emotionally coloured speech
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]
Appropriate emotional labelling of non-acted speech using basic emotions, geneva emotion wheel and self assessment manikins
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]
Ikannotate - a tool for labelling, transcription, and annotation of emotionally coloured speech
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)
Vowels formants analysis allows straightforward detection of high arousal emotions
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]
Originalartikel in begutachteter zeitschriftenartiger Reihe
Multimodal emotion classification in naturalistic user behavior
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)
2010
Artikel in Kongressband
Modeling affected user behavior during human-machine interaction
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)
Buchbeitrag
Adaptive beamforming in speaker diarization
In: Proceedings - Berlin . - 2010, insges. 9 S.
Determining optimal signal features and parameters for HMM-based emotion classification
In: 15th IEEE Mediterranian Electromechanical Conference - IEEE . - 2010, S. 1586-1590 ; Kongress: Melecon 2010 15 (Valletta, Malta : 2010.04.25-28)
Implicit sequence learning - a case study with a 4-2-4 encoder simple recurrent network
In: IJCCI 2010 - Setúbal: SciTePress . - 2010, S. 279-288 ; Kongress: ICNC 2010 (Valencia, Spain) ; 2010.10.24-26
2009
Artikel in Kongressband
Knowledge engineering with didactic knowledge first steps towards and ultimate goal
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)
Buchbeitrag
Application of HMMs for the recognition of emotional sequences in the valence-arousal space
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
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)
2008
Buchbeitrag
A priori evaluation & refinement of curricula by data mining over storyboards
In: Proceedings of the twenty-first FLAIRS conference: Coconut Grove, Florida, USA, 15 - 17 May 2008 - AAAI Press . - 2008, S. 335-340 ; Kongress: FLAIRS 21 (Coconut Grove, Fla. : 2008.05.15-17)
Emotional speech in robot controlling
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. 29-37 ; Kongress: Workshop on Emotion-, Speech- and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers 3 (Düsseldorf, Germany : 2008.05.16-17)
Knowledge mining for supporting learning processes
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. 2615-1621 ; Kongress: SMC 2008 (Singapore : 2008.10.12-15)
Methods for path evaluation in dynamic storyboards
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. 614-616 ; Kongress: ICALT 8 (Santander, Spain : 2008.07.01-05)
Survey of state-of-the-art speech recognition technology
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. 73-78 ; Kongress: Workshop on Emotion-, Speech- and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers 3 (Düsseldorf, Germany : 2008.05.16-17)
2007
Buchbeitrag
Using storyboarding and data mining to estimate success chances of curricula
In: IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, CELDA 2007 - IADIS; Kinshuk . - 2007, S. 235-242 ; Kongress: CELDA 2007 (Algarve, Portugal : 2007.12.07-09)
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
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) |
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
Lectures
Summer Term: Mustererkennung I (Pattern Recognition I)
Winter Term: Kognitive Systeme (Cognitive Systems)