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Prof. Dr. Britta Wrede

• Since 2019 Head of the Medical Assistance Systems Working Group at the Medical Faculty (under construction) of Bielefeld University
• Since 2010 Head of the Group for Applied Computer Science at Bielefeld University
• Previously head of the research group “Hybride Gesellschaft” of the AdR Laboratory
• 1999 M.A. and 2002 PhD thesis at the Faculty of Linguistics and the Faculty of Technology in the field of automatic speech recognition
• One year DAAD scholarship at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, USA (work on the analysis of prosodic cues for emotional language or “hot spots”)
• Main focus in the group for Applied Computer Science: Modelling of human-robot dialogues, emotion recognition and modelling in HRI, developmentally inspired language acquisition approaches, modelling of visual attention, analysis of tutor behaviour towards children and robots, modelling of the perception of multimodal tutor behaviour for learning and how pragmatic information can be used for HRI or interaction with intelligent environments
• Their research is driven by the question of how to equip robots with a better understanding of their social and physical environment and is strongly inspired by human development. She follows the hypothesis that learning must be embedded in social interaction
• Co-publisher of the deutsche Zeitschrift für Künstliche Intelligenz [German Journal of Artificial Intelligence]
• Principal Investigator in several EU projects (CODEFROR, ITALK, RobotDoc, Humavips) and national projects funded by the DFG (SFB 673 Alignment in Communication), the DLR (Sozirob – Der Roboter als Fitnesstrainer), the DAAD Thematic Network on Intelligent Systems and the BMBF (KogniHome, DESIRE – Deutsche Service Robotik Initiative)