Ilhan Aslan

Ilhan Aslan is a researcher affiliated with the University of Augsburg and DFKI GmbH, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, and Affective Computing. His work explores emotional speech interfaces, tangible interaction, and playful multimodal systems.

• Research Themes: Speech emotion recognition, proxemic-aware interaction, AI ethics, and user experience design.
• Recent Contributions: 2025 studies on proactive AI agents, voice emotion conversion, and solo role-playing AI; 2024 work on audio enhancement and emotional trajectory modeling.

His publications with Elisabeth André, Timothy Merritt, and Niels van Berkel demonstrate cross-institutional collaboration. Current projects emphasize sustainable creativity support, haptic feedback systems, and bias detection in speech AI.