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Elisabeth André

Elisabeth André

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Computer Science
Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
70
Citations
19652
World Ranking
1876
National Ranking
71

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Elisabeth André is affiliated with the University of Augsburg in Germany. Their research encompasses multiple areas within computer science and psychology, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.

The scientist's work centers on the following main fields of study:

  • Computer Science
  • Psychology

Within these disciplines, their key subfields of study include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Social Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Elisabeth André's research addresses several prominent topics, particularly:

  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

The scientist has published in a variety of scholarly venues, with frequent contributions to these:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Recent publications include:

  • "Let me explain!": exploring the potential of virtual agents in explainable AI interaction design (2020, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces)
  • GANterfactual-Counterfactual Explanations for Medical Non-experts Using Generative Adversarial Learning (2022, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Transcranial direct current stimulation as an additional treatment to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in adults with major depressive disorder in Germany (DepressionDC): a triple-blind, randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial (2023, The Lancet)
  • An Overview of Affective Speech Synthesis and Conversion in the Deep Learning Era (2023, Proceedings of the IEEE)
  • Unraveling ML Models of Emotion With NOVA: Multi-Level Explainable AI for Non-Experts (2020, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing)

Collaborations have been established with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Silvan Mertes
  • Dominik Schiller
  • Tobias Huber
  • Fabio Hellmann
  • Pooja Prajod

Elisabeth André has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2010.

Best Publications

  • The Geneva Minimalistic Acoustic Parameter Set (GeMAPS) for Voice Research and Affective Computing

    Florian Eyben;Klaus R. Scherer;Bjorn W. Schuller;Johan Sundberg

  • Emotion recognition based on physiological changes in music listening

    Jonghwa Kim;Elisabeth Andre

  • From Physiological Signals to Emotions: Implementing and Comparing Selected Methods for Feature Extraction and Classification

    J. Wagner;J. Kim;E. Andre

  • Creating interactive virtual humans: some assembly required

    J. Gratch;J. Rickel;E. Andre;J. Cassell

  • The Persona Effect: How Substantial Is It?

    Susanne Van Mulken;Elisabeth André;Jochen Müller

  • Comparing Feature Sets for Acted and Spontaneous Speech in View of Automatic Emotion Recognition

    T. Vogt;E. Andre

  • Plan-based integration of natural language and graphics generation

    Wolfgang Wahlster;Elisabeth André;Wolfgang Finkler;Hans-Jürgen Profitlich

  • The automated design of believable dialogues for animated presentation teams

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist;Susanne van Mulken;Martin Klesen

  • EMG-based hand gesture recognition for realtime biosignal interfacing

    Jonghwa Kim;Stephan Mastnik;Elisabeth André

  • The design of illustrated documents as a planning task

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist

  • The social signal interpretation (SSI) framework: multimodal signal processing and recognition in real-time

    Johannes Wagner;Florian Lingenfelser;Tobias Baur;Ionut Damian

  • Presenting through performing: on the use of multiple lifelike characters in knowledge-based presentation systems

    E. André;T. Rist

  • Automatic Recognition of Emotions from Speech: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Practical Realisation

    Thurid Vogt;Elisabeth André;Johannes Wagner

  • Improving Automatic Emotion Recognition from Speech via Gender Differentiaion.

    Thurid Vogt;Elisabeth André

  • Employing ai methods to control the behavior of animated interface agents

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist;Jochen Müller

  • On the simultaneous interpretation of real world image sequences and their natural language description: the system soccer

    Elisabeth André;Gerd Herzog;Thomas Rist

  • EmoVoice -- A Framework for Online Recognition of Emotions from Voice

    Thurid Vogt;Elisabeth André;Nikolaus Bee

  • Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction

    R. Beale;C. Peter;L. Palen;S. Bodker

  • Affective Dialogue Systems

    Elisabeth André;Laila Dybkjær;Wolfgang Minker;Paul Heisterkamp

  • Adding animated presentation agents to the interface

    Thomas Rist;Elisabeth André;Jochen Müller

  • Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction

    Yukiko I. Nakano;Elisabeth André;Toyoaki Nishida;Louis-Philippe Morency

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Rist
Thomas Rist Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Marc Cavazza
Marc Cavazza University of Stirling
Ana Paiva
Ana Paiva Instituto Superior Técnico
Wolfgang Minker
Wolfgang Minker University of Ulm
Ruth Aylett
Ruth Aylett Heriot-Watt University
Catherine Pelachaud
Catherine Pelachaud Sorbonne University
Wolfgang Wahlster
Wolfgang Wahlster German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Björn Schuller
Björn Schuller Imperial College London
Mitsuru Ishizuka
Mitsuru Ishizuka University of Tokyo
Helmut Prendinger
Helmut Prendinger National Institute of Informatics

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