Karl Grammer
Senior scientist Department of Anthropology - Human Behavior Research (University of Vienna). He studied zoology, anthropology, and physics in Munich, Germany. 1982 doctoral degree at the University of Munich. 1985 Professor at the Max-Planck Research Station for Human Behavior. Since 1991 Scientific and Administrative Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna, Austria. Senior Secretary of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE). 2004 First Prize in the call Co Operate 2003 of the WWFF for development of innovative non-verbal behavior simulation software.
Dirk Heylen
Professor Socially Intelligent Computing at the University of Twente, working in the Human Media Interaction group. His research interests cover both the machine analysis of human (conversational) behaviour and the generation of human-like (conversational) behaviour by virtual agents and robots. He is especially interested in the nonverbal and paraverbal aspects of dialogue and what these signals reveal about the mental state (cognitive, affective, social). These topics are explored both from a computational perspective and as basic research in the humanities, reflecting his training as a computational linguist.
Michael Kipp
Professor of computer science at Hochschule Augsburg (University of Applied Sciences). He is also head of the EMBOTS (Embodied Agents) research group in the MMCI Cluster of Excellence at Saarland University and senior researcher at the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). His group is conducting research and teaching in the area of innovative interfaces, intelligent embodied agents, multimodal corpora and sign language synthesis.
Personal web-page: http://michaelkipp.de/
Personal web-page: http://michaelkipp.de/
Daniel Västfjäll
Research Scientist at Decision Research and Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Linköping University in Sweden. His research focuses on the role of affect, and especially mood, in judgment and decision-making, perception and psychophysics. A common theme for his research is how affective feelings serve as information for various judgments including judgments about consumer products, health, the self, and auditory characteristics of objects.