Downloadable Talks

• Towards Software-Defined Networked Cars as Social Agents
  The 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2012, Keynote Lecture, Vilamoura, Portugal February 8, 2012
• Connected Cars Create Smart Spaces (Presentation Source)
  The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Keynote Lecture, Nottingham, UK, July 27, 2011
• Talking Products – Multimodal Interfaces to Digital Product Memories
  Symposium on Interaction with Smart Artifacts, Keynote Lecture,
  Tokyo, Japan, March 7-9, 2011
• The Future of Communication
  Our Common Future Congress, Keynote Lecture,
  Hannover, Germany, November 3, 2010
• Uncertainty in Lifelogging for People and Products (Presentation Source)
  International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2010, Keynote Lecture,
  Dortmund, Germany, June 28, 2010
• Future Spoken Dialog Systems: Multimodal, Multilingual, Multiparty, Multitask (Presentation Source) European META-NET: METAnk, Think Tank, Keynote Lecture, Berlin, Germany, June 5, 2010
• The Semantic Product Memory: An Interactive Black Box for Smart Objects
  The 6th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Keynote Lecture,
  Heraklion, Greece, 30 May – 03 June 2010
• Anthropomorphic Interfaces for the Internet of Things
  The 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC 2008 Keynote Lecture,
  Enschede, the Netherlands, October 31, 2008
• Semantic Product Memories: From the SmartFactory to the Intelligent Retail Store
  Invited Research Lecture, SIMTech,
  Singapore, August 5, 2008
• Ambient Retail Intelligence: What’s the Deal?
  (Presentation Source),
  3rd Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence” (AITAmI’08) at ECAI-2008, Invited Talk,
  Patras, Greece, 21-22 July 2008
• SmartWeb: Multimodal Web Services on the Road
  ACM Multimedia 2007, Keynote Lecture,
  Augsburg, Germany, September 25, 2007
• SmartWeb: Getting Answers on the Go
  ECAI 2006, Keynote Lecture,
  Riva del Garda, Italy, July 31, 2006
• Overview of the Current State of the Lead Innovation VirtualHuman
  VirtualHuman 3rd Project Review and VHNet Meeting
  Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, November 30, 2005
• Symmetric Multimodality for Ambient Intelligence
  The Third Symposium on Intelligent Human Sensing IHSS2005,
  Keynote Lecture,
  Toyohashi, Japan, March 03, 2005
• SmartWeb: Towards Semantic Web Services for Ambient Intelligence
  International Symposium on Life-World Semantics and Digital City Design, Invited Talk,
  Kyoto, Japan, December 09, 2004
• Ambient Intelligence: A Mega-Trend in Information Technology
  Collegium Budapest, Talk Presented at the Occasion of the State Visit of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to the Republic of Hungary,
  Budapest, Hungary, September 15, 2004
• Towards Symmetric Multimodality: Fusion and Fission of Speech, Gesture and Facial Expression
  26th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2003 (KI 2003), Invited Talk,
  Hamburg, Germany, September 16, 2003
• Mobile Multimodal Dialogue Systems
  Interact 2003, Keynote Lecture,
  Zurich, Swiss, September 03, 2003
• SmartKom: Dialog-based Human Computer Interaction by Coordinated Analysis and Generation of Multiple Modalities
  BMBF Status Conference “Human Computer Interaction” 2003,
  Berlin, Germany, June 03, 2003
• SmartKom: Modality Fusion for a Mobile Companion based on Semantic Web Technologies
  Cyber Assist Consortium Second International Symposium, Keynote Lecture,
  Tokyo, Japan, March 25, 2003
• Language Technologies for the Mobile Internet Era
  LangTech 2002, Invited Talk,
  Berlin, Germany, September 27, 2002
• Multimodal Interfaces to Mobile Webservices
  Nederlands ICT-Kenniscongress 2002, Keynote Lecture,
  Den Haag, The Netherlands, September 05, 2002
• Personalized Web Interaction
  Intelligent Information Processing (IIP-2002),
  IFIP World Computer Congress 17th Edition, Keynote Lecture,
  Montreal, Canada, August 29, 2002
• Natural Dialogues with an Artificial Partner – Revisited
  Symposium: Natural Language Processing between Linguistic Inquiry and System Engineering; 60th Birthday of Walther v. Hahn,
  Hamburg, Germany, April 29, 2002
• Dialog-based Human-Computer Interaction by Coordinated Analysis and Generation of Multiple Modalities
  International Status Conference, HCI,
  Saarbrücken, Germany, October 26, 2001
• SmartKom: Multimodal Communication with a Life-like Character
  Eurospeech 2001,
  Aalborg, Sweden, September 06, 2001
• Robust Translation of Spontaneous Speech: A Multi-Engine Approach
  IJCAI 2001, Invited Talk,
  Seattle, USA, August 08, 2001
• Virtual Sales Agents for Electronic Commerce
  ACAI 2001, Invited Talk,
  Prague, Czech Republic July 02, 2001
• SmartKom: Multimodal Dialogs with Mobile Web Users
  Cyber Assist International Symposium 2001, Keynote Lecture,
  Tokyo, Japan, March 06, 2001
• Computers that read, hear and understand
  Brain and Communication, Invited Talk,
  Mainz, Germany, November 24, 2000
• Virtual Sales Agent for Personalized Internet Shopping
  13th Japan-Germany Forum on Information Technology,
  Shima-gun Mie, Japan, October 16, 2000
• ACL, ECCAI and the Verbmobil/SmartKom Consortia
  ACL Workshop
  Hong Kong, October 07, 2000
• ACL Presidential Address 2000
  MP3 version of the ACL Rap,
  ACL-2000,
  Hong Kong, October 05, 2000
• Pervasive Speech and Language Technology
  Dagstuhl 2000, “Informatics – 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead”,
  Saarbrücken, Germany, August 31, 2000
• Generating Virtual Webpages
  EASSS 2000,
  Saarbrücken, Germany, August 16, 2000
• Verbmobil: Multilingual Processing of Spontaneous Speech
  Verbmobil Symposium,
  Saarbrücken, Germany, July 30, 2000
• Intelligent Multimedia Interface Agents
  Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2000,
  Acapulco, Mexico, April 11, 2000
• From Speech Recognition Towards Speech Understanding
  Heraeus-Seminar “Speech Recognition and Speech Understanding”,
  Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, April 5, 2000
• Generating Virtual Webpages
  Dagstuhl Seminar “Semantics for the Web”,
  Dagstuhl, Germany, March 22, 2000
• Multilingual Processing of Spontaneous Speech
  Münchner Kreis, “User-friendly Communication Systems”, Invited Talk,
  Munich, Germany, June 17, 1999
• Deep Processing of Shallow Structures
  The Robust Integration of Speech, Language and Translation Technology for Intelligent Interface Agents
  EACL’99, 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Keynote Lecture,
  Bergen, Norway, June 10, 1999
• Personalized Interface Agents for Virtual Webpages
  Agents 99, Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Invited Talk,
  Seattle, USA, May 3, 1999
• Agent-based Multimedia Interaction for Virtual Web Pages
  IUI99, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Keynote Lecture,
  Los Angeles, USA, January 6, 1999
• Towards Personalized and Intuitive IST
  IST ’98 Workshop, “The Language of Business – the Business of Language”,
  Vienna, Austria, December 2, 1998