Prof. Dr. Christian Werner Becker-Asano

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods,General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
KeywordsAffective Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Computational modeling, Multi-Agent Systems, Telepresence
Honours and awards

2024: Feodor-Lynen Stipendium für einen erneuten Auslandsaufenthalt (AvH)

2022: JSPS-Bridge fellowship (three weeks)

2014: Outstanding Demo Award bei der ICMI Konferenz in Istanbul

2012: JSPS-Bridge fellowship (three weeks)

2010: Junior Fellow am Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

2010: Rückkehrstipenium der AvH

2008: JSPS post-doctoral fellow (two years)

2005: JSPS pre-doctoral fellow (three month)

2002: Dritter Preis der Körber-Stiftung

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityStuttgart
InstitutionHochschule der Medien (HdM)
InstituteFakultät 1: Druck und Medien
Homepagehttps://www.becker-asano.de

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hiroshi IshiguroIntelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories (IRC), Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto
Prof. Dr. Yusuke SuganoInstitute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2008

Programme(s)

2008Research Fellowship Programme from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Publications (partial selection)

2022Kleine-Wechelmann, Sarah and Bastiaanse, Kim and Freundel, Matthias and Becker-Asano, Christian: Designing the mobile robot {Kevin} for a life science laboratory. Proc. of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Naples, Italy: 2022. (to appear)
2021de Melo, Celso and Petters, Dean and Parthemore, Joel and Moffatt, David and Becker-Asano, Christian: Introduction to the Special Issue On Computational Modelling of Emotion. In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 12, 2021, 277-278
2019Schweizer T. and Renner F. and Sun D. and Becker-Asano C. and Tuschen-Caffier B.: Cognitive Processing and Regulation Modulates Analogue Trauma Symptoms in a Virtual Reality Paradigm. In: Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 2019,
2018von der Pütten, Astrid M. and Krämer, Nicole C. and Becker-Asano, Christian and Ogawa, Kohei and Nishio, Shuichi and Ishiguro, Hiroshi: At the Caf{\'e}---Exploration and Analysis of People's Nonverbal Behavior Toward an Android. In: Geminoid Studies: Science and Technologies for Humanlike Teleoperated Androids, 2018, 375--397
2017Pham, Thi Xuan Ngan and Hayashi, Kotaro and Becker-Asano, Christian and Lacher, Sebastian and Mizuuchi, Ikuo: {Evaluating the Usability and Users' Acceptance of a Kitchen Assistant Robot in Household Environment}. Proc. of the 26th Intl. Symp. on Robot and Human Inteactive Communication. Lisbon, Portugal: 2017. 987-992
2017Tina Schweizer and Julian Schmitz and Laura Plempe and Dali Sun and Christian Becker-Asano and Rainer Leonhart and Brunna Tuschen-Caffier: {The impact of pre-existing anxiety on affective and cognitive processing of a Virtual Reality analogue trauma}. In: PLOS ONE, 12, 2017,
2015Becker-Asano, C. and Riesterer, N. and Hu\'{e}, J. and Nebel, B.: Embodiment, emotion, and chess: A system description. Procs. of the 4th Intl. Symp. on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (AISB2015). 2015.
2015Astrid Weiss and Christoph Bartneck: Meta analysis of the usage of the Godspeed Questionnaire Series. 24th {IEEE} International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, {RO-MAN} 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 2015. {IEEE}, 2015. 381--388
2015Ragni, Marco and Becker-Asano, Christian: The Pleasure will be Always on Our Side. In: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 29, 2015, 299--302
2014Becker-Asano, C. and Ruzzoli, F. and Hölscher, C. and Nebel, B.: A Multi-Agent System based on Unity 4 for virtual perception and wayfinding. In: Transportation Research Procedia, 2, 2014, 452 - 455
2014Felix Burkhardt and Christian Becker-Asano and Edmon Begoli and Roddy Cowie and Gerhard Fobe and Patrick Gebhard and Abe Kazemzadeh and Ingmar Steiner: Application of {EmotionML}. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2014. TUDpress, 2014. 201-208
2014Felix Burkhardt and Christian Becker-Asano and Edmon Begoli and Roddy Cowie and Gerhard Fobe and Patrick Gebhard and Abe Kazemzadeh and Ingmar Steiner and Tim Llewellyn: Application of {EmotionML}. 5th Intl. Workshop on Emotion, Social Signals, Sentiment \& Linked Open Data (ES3LOD). 2014. 1--5
2014Damm, Oliver and Becker-Asano, Christian and Lohse, Manja and Hegel, Frank and Wrede, Britta: Applications for Emotional Robots. Procs of the 2014 ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Human-robot Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2014. 495--496
2014Becker-Asano, C. and Gustorff, S. and Arras, K. O. and Nebel, B.: On the Effect of Operator Modality on Social and Spatial Presence during Teleoperation of a Human-Like Robot. Procs. of the 3rd Intl. Symp. on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (AISB2014). 2014.
2014Becker-Asano, Christian and Arras, Kai Oliver and Nebel, Bernhard: Robotic Tele-presence with DARYL in the Wild. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human-agent Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2014. 91--95
2014Becker-Asano, C. and Meneses, E. and Riesterer, N. and Hué, J. and Dornhege, C. and Nebel, B.: The hybrid agent {MARCO}: {A Multimodal Autonomous Robotic Chess Opponent}. Proc. of the 2nd Intl. Conf. on Human-Agent Interaction. 2014.
2014Riesterer, Nicolas and Becker Asano, Christian and Hu{\'e}, Julien and Dornhege, Christian and Nebel, Bernhard: The hybrid {Agent MARCO}. Proc. of the 16th Intl. Conf. on Multimodal Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2014. 80--81
2014Rosenthal-von der P\"{u}tten, A. M. and Kr\"{a}mer, N. C. and Becker-Asano, C. and Ogawa, K. and Nishio, S. and Ishiguro, H.: The uncanny in the wild. {A}nalysis of unscripted human-android interaction in the field. In: Intl. Journal of Social Robotics, 6, 2014, 67-83
2014Leymann, S. and H\"{o}lscher, C. and Becker-Asano, C. and von St\"{u}lpnagel, R.: {Der Einfluss einer Speed-Accuracy Manipulation auf schildergeleitetes Navigationsverhalten in einer virtuellen Umgebung}. Abstracts of the 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Gie{\ss}en: 2014. 162-162
2014Hartmann, Kim and B\"{o}ck, Ronald and Becker-Asano, Christian and Gratch, Jonathan and Schuller, Bj\"{o}rn and Scherer, Klaus R.: {ERM4HCI 2013}: {The} 1st workshop on emotion representation and modelling in human-computer-interaction-systems. Proc. of the 15th Intl. Conf. on Multimodal Interaction. 2014. 607--608
2014Becker-Asano, C.: {WASABI} for affect simulation in human-computer interaction. Proc. on Emotion Representations and Modelling for HCI Systems. Sydney, Australia: Springer, 2014.
2013Becker-Asano, C. and Stahl, P. and Ragni, M. and Martin, J.-C. and Courgeon, M. and Nebel, B.: An affective virtual agent providing embodied feedback in the paired associate task: system design and evaluation. Proc. of the 13th. Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2013). Edinburgh, UK: 2013. 406-415
2013C. Becker-Asano and S. Gustorff and Kai O. Arras and K. Ogawa and S. Nishio and H. Ishiguro and B. Nebel: Robot Embodiment, Operator Modality, and Social Interaction in Tele-Existence: A Project Outline. Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2013). 2013. 79-80
2013N. Kr\"{a}mer and S. Kopp and C. Becker-Asano and N. Sommer: Smile and the world will smile with you---The effects of a virtual agent's smile on users' evaluation and behavior. In: Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71, 2013, 335-349
2013Kiryazov, K. and Lowe, R. and Becker-Asano, C. and Randazzo, M.: The Role of Arousal in Two-Resource Problem Tasks for Humanoid Service Robots. Proc. IEEE Intl. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'13). IEEE, 2013. 62-69
2013C. Becker-Asano and D. Sun and C. N. Scheel and B. Tuschen-Caffier and B. Nebel: {Analyzing for emotional arousal in HMD-based head movements during a virtual emergency}. Intl. Workshop on Emotion and Computing in conj. with KI2013. 2013. 34-43
2012von der P\"{u}tten, A. M. and Becker-Asano, C. and Ogawa, K. and Nishio, S. and Ishiguro, H.: Exploration and Analysis of People's Nonverbal Behavior Towards an Android. Proc. of the Annual meeting of the International Communication Association. Phoenix, USA: 2012.
2012S. Embgen and M. Luber and C. Becker-Asano and M. Ragni and V. Evers and Kai O. Arras: Robot-Specific Social Cues in Emotional Body Language. Proc. IEEE Intl. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'12). Paris, France: 2012. 1019 -1025
2012C. Becker-Asano and K.O. Arras and B. Nebel and H. Ishiguro: The Effect of Anthropomorphism on Social Tele-Embodiment. IROS 2012 Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction. Vilamoura, Portugal: 2012.
2012B. Kleim and T. Ehring and C. N. Scheel and C. Becker-Asano and B. Nebel and B. Tuschen-Caffier: {Bew\"{a}ltigungsverhalten in Notfallsituationen aus klinisch-psychologischer Perspektive}. In: Zeitschrift f\"{u}r Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 41, 2012, 166-179
2012Scheel, C. N. and Kleim, B. and Schmitz, J. and Becker-Asano, C. and Sun, D. and Nebel, B. and Tuschen-Caffier, B.: {Psychophysiologische Belastungsreaktivit\"{a}t nach einem simulierten Feuer in einer Parkgarage}. In: Zeitschrift f\"{u}r Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 41, 2012, 180--189
2011Christian Werner Becker-Asano: Affective Computing Combined with Android Science. In: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 2011, 22-29
2011von der P\"{u}tten, A. M. and Kr\"{a}mer, N. C. and Becker-Asano, C. and Ishiguro, H.: An Android in the Field. ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction. Lausanne, Switzerland: 2011. 283-284
2011von der P\"{u}tten, A. M. and Kr\"{a}mer, N. C. and Becker-Asano, C. and Ishiguro, H.: An Android in the field. {How} people react towards {Geminoid HI-1} in a real world scenario. Proc. of the 7th Conf. of the Media Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society. 2011.
2011Becker-Asano, C. and Ishiguro, H.: Evaluating facial displays of emotion for the android robot {Geminoid F}. IEEE SSCI Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence. 2011. 22-29
2011Kiryazov, K. and Lowe, R. and Becker-Asano, C. and Montebelli, A. and Ziemke, T.: From the Virtual to the Robotic: Bringing Emoting and Appraising Agents into Reality. In: Procedia Computer Science, 7, 2011, 241 - 243
2011Becker-Asano, C. and Ishiguro, H.: Inter-cultural differences in the evaluation of an android's facial display of emotions. Bi-annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE). 2011.
2011Becker-Asano, C. and Ishiguro, H.: Intercultural differences in decoding facial expressions of the android robot {Geminoid F}. In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research, 1, 2011, 215-231
2011Becker-Asano, C.: Invited Commentary: On Guiding the Design of an Ill-defined Phenomenon. In: Intl. Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 2, 2011, 66-67
2011C. Becker-Asano and D. Sun and B. Kleim and C. N. Scheel and B. Tuschen-Caffier and B. Nebel: Outline of an Empirical Study on the Effects of Emotions on Strategic Behavior in Virtual Emergencies. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Springer, 2011. 508--517
2011Becker-Asano, C. and Kanda, T. and Ishi, C. and Ishiguro, H.: Studying laughter combined with two humanoid robots. In: AI \& Society, 26, 2011, 291-300
2011Becker-Asano, C.: {Affective Computing combined with Android Science}. In: KI - K\"{u}nstliche Intelligenz, 25, 2011, 245-250
2011Tuschen-Caffier, B. and Kleim, B. and Becker-Asano, C. and Sun, D. and Nebel, B. and Scheel, C.: {Bew\"{a}ltigungsverhalten in virtuellen Notfallsituationen}. 7. Workshop Kongress f\"{u}r Psychologie und Psychotherapie. 2011.
2011Becker-Asano, C. and Sun, D. and Kleim, B. and Scheel,C. N. and Tuschen-Caffier, B. and Nebel, B.: {CoVE: Coping in Virtual Emergencies}. Intl. Workshop on Emotion and Computing. 2011. 1
2010Becker-Asano, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: Affective computing with primary and secondary emotions in a virtual human. In: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 20, 2010, 32-49
2010Christian Becker-Asano, Ipke Wachsmuth: Affective computing with primary and secondary emotions in a virtual human. In: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2010, 32-49
2010Cooney, M. D. and Becker-Asano, C. and Kanda, T. and Alissandrakis, A. and Ishiguro, H.: Full-body Gesture Recognition Using Inertial Sensors for Playful Interaction with Small Humanoid Robot. Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2010. 2276-2282
2010Christian Werner Becker-Asano: Studying laughter combined with two humanoid robots. In: AI & Society, 2010, 32-49
2010Becker-Asano, C. and Nishio, S. and Ogawa, K. and Ishiguro, H.: {Exploring the Uncanny Valley with Geminoid HI-1 in a real-world application}. IADIS Intl. Conf. on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. Freiburg: 2010. 121-128
2010Becker-Asano, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: {WASABI} as a case study of how misattribution of emotion can be modelled computationally. In: Scherer, K.R. and B\"{a}nziger, T. and Roesch, E., A Blueprint for Affective Computing: a Sourcebook and Manual. Oxford University Press, 2010. 179-193
2009Becker-Asano, C. and Kanda, T. and Ishi, C. and Ishiguro, H.: Humanoid robots laughing in response to a joke: {R}esults of a video-based online survey. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Interactional Vocalisations in Speech. 2009.
2009Hudlicka, E. and Payr, S. and Ventura, R. and Becker-Asano, C. and Fischer, K. and Leite, I. and Paiva, A. and von Scheve,C.: Social interaction with robots and agents: Where do we stand, Where do we go?. Affective Compting and Intelligent Interaction. Amsterdam: 2009. 698-703
2009Becker-Asano, C. and Kanda, T. and Ishi, C. and Ishiguro, H.: {How about laughter? Perceived naturalness of two laughing humanoid robots}. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 2009. 49-54
2009Becker-Asano, C. and Ishiguro, H.: {Laughter in Social Robotics -- no laughing matter}. Intl. Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID2009). 2009. 287-300
2008Becker-Asano, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: Affect Simulation with Primary and Secondary Emotions. In: H. Prendinger and J. Lester and M. Ishizuka, Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 08). Springer, 2008. 15-28
2008Tolksdorf, J. and C. Becker-Asano and Kopp, S.: Do You Know How {I} Feel? {E}valuating Emotional Display of Primary and Secondary Emotions. In: H. Prendinger and J. Lester and M. Ishizuka, Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 08). Springer, 2008. 548-549
2008Christian Werner Becker-Asano: WASABI: Affect Simulation for Agents with Believable Interactivity. Akademische V.-G. Aka, 2008
2008Hofstaetter, A. and Grammer, K. and Hasse, K. and C. Becker-Asano and Wachsmuth, I.: {How Emma learned to smile and frown. The implementation of the facial action coding system in an avatar}. XIX Biennial Conf. of the Intl. Society for Human Ethology. 2008. 137-138
2008Sommer, N. and Kr\"{a}mer, N.C. and Kopp, S. and Becker, C.: {Keep smiling! An embodied agent's impact on user's evaluation and smiling behaviour}. 29th Intl. Congress of Psychology. Berlin: 2008.
2008Becker-Asano, C. and Kopp, S. and Pfeiffer-Le\ss{}mann, N. and Wachsmuth, I.: {Virtual Humans Growing up: From Primary Toward Secondary Emotions}. In: KI - K\"{u}nstliche Intelligenz, 1, 2008, 23-27
2007Duval, S. and Becker, C. and Hashizume, H.: Privacy Issues for the Disclosure of Emotions to Remote Acquaintances without Simultaneous Communication. 12th Intl. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction. Beijing, China: 2007. 82-91
2007Boukricha, H. and Becker, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: Simulating Empathy for the Virtual Human {Max}. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Emotion and Computing. 2007. 22-27
2007Becker, C. and Kopp, S. and Wachsmuth, I.: Why emotions should be integrated into conversational agents. In: Toyoaki Nishida, Conversational {I}nformatics: An {E}ngineering {A}pproach. Wiley, 2007. 49-68
2006Prendinger, H. and Becker, C. and Ishizuka, M.: A study in users' physiological response to an empathic interface agent. In: Intl. Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 3, 2006, 371-391
2006Becker, C. and Le\ss{}mann, N. and Kopp, S. and Wachsmuth, I.: Connecting feelings and thoughts - modeling the interaction of emotion and cognition in embodied agents. 7th Intl. Conf. on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM-06). Edizioni Goliardiche, 2006. 32-37
2006Becker, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: Modeling primary and secondary emotions for a believable communication agent. In: Dirk Reichardt and P. Levi and J.-J. C. Meyer, Intl. Workshop on Emotion and Computing. --, 2006. 31-34
2006Becker, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: {Playing the Cards Game SkipBo against an Emotional Max}. In: Dirk Reichardt and P. Levi and J.-J. C. Meyer, {Intl. Workshop on Emotion and Computing}. Bremen: 2006. 65
2006Kopp, S. and Becker, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: {The Virtual Human Max - Modeling Embodied Conversation}. KI 2006 - Demo Presentation, Extended Abstracts. 2006. 21-24
2005Becker, C. and Prendinger, H. and Ishizuka, M. and Wachsmuth, I.: Empathy for {Max} ({Preliminary} project report). Intl. Conf. on Active Media Technology (AMT-05). 2005. 541-545
2005Becker, C. and Prendinger, H. and Ishizuka, M. and Wachsmuth, I.: Evaluating Affective Feedback of the 3D Agent Max in a Competitive Cards Game. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Springer, 2005. 466--473
2005Becker, C. and Nakasone, A. and Prendinger, H. and Ishizuka, M. and Wachsmuth, I.: Physiologically interactive gaming with the 3D agent Max. Intl. Workshop on Conversational Informatics. --, 2005. 37-42
2004Becker, C. and Kopp, S. and Wachsmuth, I.: Simulating the emotion dynamics of a multimodal conversational agent. Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems. Springer, 2004. 154--165