Prof. Dr. Hannes Ritschel
Phone: | +49 821 598 - 2315 |
Fax: | +49 821 598 - 2349 |
Email: | hannes.ritschel@informatik.uni-augsburginformatik.uni-augsburg.de () |
Room: | 2037 (N) |
Address: | Universit?tsstra?e 6a, 86159 Augsburg |
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Research Interests
My research and teaching focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning for real-time multimedia applications. I am also a professor at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Music Würzburg.?My dissertation focused on reinforcement learning in the context of human-robot interaction with social, humanoid robots. The goal was to adapt the machine to the user based on human social cues.
Talks, Workshops & Demos
Social Robots - From a Tin Can to an Intelligent Roommate
Talk at the 17. Akademietage Bietigheim-Bissingen about social robots and artificial intelligence (AI)
Wed, November 8, 2023, 2:10pm
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Workshop on Latest Advances in Diversifying Artificial Intelligence
Organization of the workshop. Details and registration on? https://hcai.eu/diversifying-ai/
Fr, Oktober 6, 10am, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg
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A Doodle Illustration Technique for Non-Artists
Workshop talk in the context of the 21st Gulaschprogrammiernacht about making illustrations based on line drawings
Sat, June 10, 2pm, ZKM Seminar Room, Karlsruhe
The Robot's Book on Etiquette: Of Polite and Musical Robots
Talk in the series "K?nigsbrunner Campus" about newest insights from research and study insights in the context of social robotics at the Human-Centered Multimedia lab (in German); Admission free!
Thu, October 14, 2021, 7pm, Informationspavillon 955, Alter Postweg 1, K?nigsbrunn ??augsburger-allgemeine.de ??koenigsbrunn.de ??myheimat.de
Human and Machine: Artificial Intelligence - How Social Robots Learn from Humans
Talk about social robots, use cases and autonomous learning (in German)
Tue, May 28, 2019, 7:30pm, Haus Sankt Ulrich, Kappelberg 1 (Room C17, Bischof-Ketteler-Saal), Augsburg
Adaptive Social Robots
Talk in the series "Campus on Tour" about social robots and the role of human social signals for autonomous learning (in German); Admission free!
Fri, November 16, 2018, 7pm, Altes Rathaus, Bgm.-Kaifer-Str. 10, VHS room (1st floor), Neus??
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Demo: Drink-O-Mender
Demonstration of a self-learning social robot in the role of a nutritionist at the "Long Night of Science" (in German); Admission free!
Sat, May 5, 2018, 6:30-11:00pm, Augsburg town hall, Rathausplatz 1, Augsburg ??augsburg.de ??augsburger-allgemeine.de
Reinforcement Learning in Social Robotics
This talk in the series "K?nigsbrunner Campus" covers social robots, human-robot-interaction and adaptation based on Reinforcement Learning (in German); Admission free!
Wed, October 26, 2016, 7pm, Informationspavillon 955, Alter Postweg 1, K?nigsbrunn ??Review???augsburger-allgemeine.de???myheimat.de ??stadtzeitung.de
Social?Robots
This talk in the series "CineUni" covers the evolution of social robots, state of the art, application examples, future visions and research (in German)
Tue, April 28, 2015, 7:30pm, Cinemaxx Augsburg ??aitiraum.de ??facebook.com
Press
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Scientists Have a Plan to Make Humans Accept Robots: Give Them a Sense of Humor ??thedailybeast.com
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KI-Konferenz AAMAS: Mit Warmherzigkeit und Ironie gelingt der Roboter-Dialog ??heise.de
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Ein Roboter, der Witze erz?hlt ??ndr.de
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Soziale Roboter gegen die Einsamkeit im Alter ??augsburger-allgemeine.de
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Informatiker kommentiert aktuellen Marvel-Film: "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ??aitiraum.de
Awards
- Best Technical Paper Award: Hannes Ritschel, Andreas Seiderer, Kathrin Janowski, Stefan Wagner and Elisabeth Andre. Adaptive Linguistic Style for an Assistive Robotic Health Companion Based on Explicit Human Feedback. 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2019.
- Best Poster Award:?Hannes Ritschel, Kathrin Janowski, Andreas Seiderer, Stefan Wagner and Elisabeth Andre. Insights on Usability and User Feedback for an Assistive Robotic Health Companion with Adaptive Linguistic Style. 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2019.
Videos
Projects
Teaching
Content Creation for Virtual Environments
The Master lecture, which I established for the summer semester 2023, deals with basics of manual and procedural content creation for virtual real-time environments (e.g. games/simulations and virtual reality) and gives insight into the interface between art and computer science. The focus is on graphics, supplemented by fundamentals of sound and music. In the exercise course, the techniques and concepts are put into practice.
Reinforcement Learning
The Master lecture, which I established for the winter semester 2015/16, covers fundamentals, algorithms and methods of reinforcement learning, which are deepened, implemented and explored and simulated in the exercise course. Contents include the Markov decision problem, dynamic programming, Monte Carlo problems, TD learning, linear and nonlinear function approximation.
Practical Course Reinforcement Learning
The Master course, which I established and offered until the summer semester of 2022, applied selected techniques and concepts of reinforcement learning to the context of HCI and HRI.
Other Courses
Winter term 2023/24: Embodied Characters and Interactive Virtual Worlds Lab
Winter term 2017/18 until 2019/20: Multimedia Project (Bachelor)
Summer term 2015: Seminar Advanced Topics in Multimodal Dialogue and Interaction (Master)
Events
- Workshop on Latest Advances in Diversifying Artificial Intelligence 2023
- Girls' Day 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Tag der Informatik 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Publications
2022 |
Kathrin Janowski, Hannes Ritschel and Elisabeth André. 2022. Adaptive artificial personalities. In Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud and David Traum (Ed.). The handbook on socially interactive agents: 20 years of research on embodied conversational agents, intelligent virtual agents, and social robotics, volume 2: interactivity, platforms, application. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, 155-194. DOI: 10.1145/3563659.3563666 |
Hannes Ritschel. 2022. Real-time generation and adaptation of social companion robot behaviors. Dissertation, Universit?t Augsburg. . |
2021 |
Hannes Ritschel, Thomas Kiderle and Elisabeth André. 2021. Implementing parallel and independent movements for a social robot's affective expressions. In 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 28 September – 1 October, 2021, Virtual Event, Nara, Japan. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-4 DOI: 10.1109/ACIIW52867.2021.9666341 |
Thomas Kiderle, Hannes Ritschel, Kathrin Janowski, Silvan Mertes, Florian Lingenfelser and Elisabeth André. 2021. Socially-aware personality adaptation. In 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 28 September – 1 October, 2021, Virtual Event, Nara, Japan. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-8 DOI: 10.1109/ACIIW52867.2021.9666197 |
2020 |
Andreas Seiderer, Hannes Ritschel and Elisabeth André. 2020. Development of a privacy-by-design speech assistant providing nutrient information for German seniors. In Catia Prandi and Johann Marquez-Barja (Ed.). GoodTechs '20: Proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2020. ACM, New York, NY, 114-119. DOI: 10.1145/3411170.3411227 |
Hannes Ritschel, Thomas Kiderle, Klaus Weber, Florian Lingenfelser, Tobias Baur and Elisabeth André. 2020. Multimodal joke generation and?paralinguistic personalization for a socially-aware robot. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12092, 278-290. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49778-1_22 |
Hannes Ritschel, Thomas Kiderle, Klaus Weber and Elisabeth André. 2020. Multimodal joke presentation for social robots based on natural-language generation and nonverbal behaviors. In Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human–Robot Interaction at HRI 2020, March 23, 2020, Cambridge, UK. |
Hannes Ritschel, Andreas Seiderer and Elisabeth André. 2020. Pianobot: an adaptive robotic piano tutor. In HRI 2020 Workshop on Exploring Creative Content in Social Robotics, March 23, 2020, Cambridge, UK. |
2019 |
Hannes Ritschel, Andreas Seiderer, Kathrin Janowski, Stefan Wagner and Elisabeth André. 2019. Adaptive linguistic style for an assistive robotic health companion based on explicit human feedback. In Fillia Makedon (Ed.). Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA '19, Rhodes, Greece, June 05 - 07, 2019. ACM Press, New York, NY, 247-255. DOI: 10.1145/3316782.3316791 |
Hannes Ritschel, Kathrin Janowski, Andreas Seiderer, Stefan Wagner and Elisabeth André. 2019. Insights on usability and user feedback for an assistive robotic health companion with adaptive linguistic style. In Fillia Makedon (Ed.). Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA '19, Rhodes, Greece, June 05 - 07, 2019. ACM Press, New York, NY, 319-320. DOI: 10.1145/3316782.3322737 |
Hannes Ritschel, Ilhan Aslan, David Sedlbauer and Elisabeth André. 2019. Irony man: augmenting a social robot with the ability to use irony in multimodal communication with humans. In Edith Elkind, Manuela Veloso, Noa Agmon and Matthew E. Taylor (Ed.). AAMAS '19 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Montreal QC, Canada, May 13-17, 2019. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 86-94. |
Hannes Ritschel, Ilhan Aslan, Silvan Mertes, Andreas Seiderer and Elisabeth André. 2019. Personalized synthesis of intentional and emotional non-verbal sounds for social robots. In 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019), Cambridge, UK, 3-6 September 2019. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-7. DOI: 10.1109/ACII.2019.8925487 |
Hannes Ritschel, Kathrin Janowski, Andreas Seiderer and Elisabeth André. 2019. Towards a robotic dietitian with adaptive linguistic style. In Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Dimitris Charitos, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Paolo Ciampolini, Francesca Cuomo, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Damianos Gavalas, Sten Hanke, Andreas Komninos and Georgios Mylonas (Ed.). AmI 2019: Poster and Workshop Sessions of AmI-2019; Joint Proceeding of the Poster and Workshop Sessions of AmI-2019, the 2019 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Rome, Italy, November 13-15, 2019. CEUR-WS (CEUR Workshop Proceedings ; 2492), 16. |
2018 |
Hannes Ritschel, Andreas Seiderer, Kathrin Janowski, Ilhan Aslan and Elisabeth André. 2018. Drink-o-mender: an adaptive robotic drink adviser. In Anton Nijholt, Carlos Velasco, Marianna Obrist, Katsunori Okajima and Charles Spence (Ed.). Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction - MHFI'18: Boulder, CO, USA — October 16 - 20, 2018. ACM Press, New York, NY, 3. DOI: 10.1145/3279954.3279957 |
Klaus Weber, Hannes Ritschel, Ilhan Aslan, Florian Lingenfelser and Elisabeth André. 2018. How to shape the humor of a robot - social behavior adaptation based on reinforcement learning. In Sidney K. D'Mello, Panayiotis (Panos) Georgiou, Stefan Scherer, Emily Mower Provost, Mohammad Soleymani and Marcelo Worsley (Ed.). Proceedings of the 2018 on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI '18, Boulder, CO, USA — October 16 - 20, 2018. ACM Press, New York, NY, 154-162. DOI: 10.1145/3242969.3242976 |
Klaus Weber, Hannes Ritschel, Florian Lingenfelser and Elisabeth André. 2018. Real-time adaptation of a robotic joke teller based on human social signals. In Elisabeth André, Sven Koenig, Mehdi Dastani and Gita Sukthankar (Ed.). AAMAS '18 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, July 10 - 15, 2018. IFAAMAS - International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 2259-2261. |
Hannes Ritschel and Elisabeth André. 2018. Shaping a social robot's humor with natural language generation and socially-aware reinforcement learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on NLG for Human–Robot Interaction: Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction - Full day workshop at INLG 2018, November 8, 2018, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Association for Computational Linguistics, 12-16 DOI: 10.18653/v1/W18-6903 |
Hannes Ritschel. 2018. Socially-aware reinforcement learning for personalized human-robot interaction. In Elisabeth André, Sven Koenig, Mehdi Dastani and Gita Sukthankar (Ed.). AAMAS '18 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-15, 2018. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 1775-1777. |
Kathrin Janowski, Hannes Ritschel, Birgit Lugrin and Elisabeth André. 2018. Sozial interagierende Roboter in der Pflege. In Oliver Bendel (Ed.). Pflegeroboter. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden, 63-87. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-22698-5_4 |
2017 |
Hannes Ritschel, Tobias Baur and Elisabeth André. 2017. Adapting a robot's linguistic style based on socially-aware reinforcement learning. In Urbano J. Nunes, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Jorge Lobo and Bram Vanderborght (Ed.). 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 28 Aug. - 1 Sept. 2017, Lisbon, Portugal. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 378-384. DOI: 10.1109/roman.2017.8172330 |
Hannes Ritschel, Tobias Baur and Elisabeth André. 2017. Personalisierung der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion durch sozial-sensitives Lernen. In 2. VDI-Fachkonferenz Humanoide Roboter 2017, Aschheim, Deutschland, 5.-6. Dezember 2017. |
Hannes Ritschel and Elisabeth André. 2017. Real-time robot personality adaptation based on reinforcement learning and social signals. In Bilge Mutlu, Manfred Tscheligi, Astrid Weiss and James E. Young (Ed.). Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '17, Vienna, Austria, March 06 - 09, 2017. ACM Press, New York, NY, 265-266. DOI: 10.1145/3029798.3038381 |