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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods,General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology |
| Keywords | Affective 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
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Stuttgart |
| Institution | Hochschule der Medien (HdM) |
| Institute | Fakultät 1: Druck und Medien |
| Homepage | https://www.becker-asano.de |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro | Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories (IRC), Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto |
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| Prof. Dr. Yusuke Sugano | Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/07/2008 |
Programme(s)
| 2008 | Research Fellowship Programme from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2022 | Kleine-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) |
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| 2021 | de 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 |
| 2019 | Schweizer 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, |
| 2018 | von 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 |
| 2017 | Pham, 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 |
| 2017 | Tina 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, |
| 2015 | Becker-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. |
| 2015 | Astrid 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 |
| 2015 | Ragni, Marco and Becker-Asano, Christian: The Pleasure will be Always on Our Side. In: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 29, 2015, 299--302 |
| 2014 | Becker-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 |
| 2014 | Felix 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 |
| 2014 | Felix 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 |
| 2014 | Damm, 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 |
| 2014 | Becker-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. |
| 2014 | Becker-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 |
| 2014 | Becker-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. |
| 2014 | Riesterer, 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 |
| 2014 | Rosenthal-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 |
| 2014 | Leymann, 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 |
| 2014 | Hartmann, 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 |
| 2014 | Becker-Asano, C.: {WASABI} for affect simulation in human-computer interaction. Proc. on Emotion Representations and Modelling for HCI Systems. Sydney, Australia: Springer, 2014. |
| 2013 | Becker-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 |
| 2013 | C. 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 |
| 2013 | N. 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 |
| 2013 | Kiryazov, 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 |
| 2013 | C. 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 |
| 2012 | von 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. |
| 2012 | S. 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 |
| 2012 | C. 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. |
| 2012 | B. 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 |
| 2012 | Scheel, 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 |
| 2011 | Christian Werner Becker-Asano: Affective Computing Combined with Android Science. In: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 2011, 22-29 |
| 2011 | von 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 |
| 2011 | von 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. |
| 2011 | Becker-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 |
| 2011 | Kiryazov, 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 |
| 2011 | Becker-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. |
| 2011 | Becker-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 |
| 2011 | Becker-Asano, C.: Invited Commentary: On Guiding the Design of an Ill-defined Phenomenon. In: Intl. Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 2, 2011, 66-67 |
| 2011 | C. 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 |
| 2011 | Becker-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 |
| 2011 | Becker-Asano, C.: {Affective Computing combined with Android Science}. In: KI - K\"{u}nstliche Intelligenz, 25, 2011, 245-250 |
| 2011 | Tuschen-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. |
| 2011 | Becker-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 |
| 2010 | Becker-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 |
| 2010 | Christian 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 |
| 2010 | Cooney, 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 |
| 2010 | Christian Werner Becker-Asano: Studying laughter combined with two humanoid robots. In: AI & Society, 2010, 32-49 |
| 2010 | Becker-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 |
| 2010 | Becker-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 |
| 2009 | Becker-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. |
| 2009 | Hudlicka, 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 |
| 2009 | Becker-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 |
| 2009 | Becker-Asano, C. and Ishiguro, H.: {Laughter in Social Robotics -- no laughing matter}. Intl. Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID2009). 2009. 287-300 |
| 2008 | Becker-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 |
| 2008 | Tolksdorf, 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 |
| 2008 | Christian Werner Becker-Asano: WASABI: Affect Simulation for Agents with Believable Interactivity. Akademische V.-G. Aka, 2008 |
| 2008 | Hofstaetter, 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 |
| 2008 | Sommer, 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. |
| 2008 | Becker-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 |
| 2007 | Duval, 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 |
| 2007 | Boukricha, H. and Becker, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: Simulating Empathy for the Virtual Human {Max}. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Emotion and Computing. 2007. 22-27 |
| 2007 | Becker, 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 |
| 2006 | Prendinger, 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 |
| 2006 | Becker, 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 |
| 2006 | Becker, 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 |
| 2006 | Becker, 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 |
| 2006 | Kopp, S. and Becker, C. and Wachsmuth, I.: {The Virtual Human Max - Modeling Embodied Conversation}. KI 2006 - Demo Presentation, Extended Abstracts. 2006. 21-24 |
| 2005 | Becker, 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 |
| 2005 | Becker, 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 |
| 2005 | Becker, 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 |
| 2004 | Becker, 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 |