Thomas Kiderle

Thomas Kiderle is a Researcher at the Chair for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at the University of Augsburg's Faculty of Applied Computer Science. His work focuses on nonverbal behavior synthesis, computational humor, and virtual character development. Key projects include PRESENT (photorealistic sentient entities) and ViLeArn_more (virtual learning environments). He contributes to interdisciplinary research in affective computing, social robotics, and AI ethics.

Research interests span multimodal interaction design, generative AI for social agents, and real-time behavioral adaptation. Notable publications address voice conversion for virtual agents, parallel robot affective expressions, and socially-aware personality systems. His team develops emotionally intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and human-robot collaboration.

• Supervises topics in virtual character interaction, conditional motion synthesis, and multimodal dialogue systems.
• Collaborates on EU-funded projects like FORSocialRobots and MITHOS.
• Active in forums like FMLA (Machine Learning Augsburg).

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