Publications

2018

Human-like Prototypes for Psychologically Inspired Knowledge Representation (Alisa Volkert, Stefanie Müller, and Alexandra Kirsch), In: Procedia Computer Science 123, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2018.01.076. [pdf]

Motion Categorisation: Representing Velocity Qualitatively (Juan Purcalla Arrufi, Alexandra Kirsch), In: Cognitive Systems Research, Elsevier, 2018

2017

A Modular Approach of Decision-Making in the Context of Robot Navigation in Domestic Environments (Alexandra Kirsch), In: 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI), 2017.

Bewegungserkennung mit Wearables für Embodied Trainings in Serious Games (Heiko Holz, Benedikt Beuttler, and Alexandra Kirsch), In: Mensch und Computer, 2017.

Design and Evaluation of a User Interface to Facilitate Cardiac Monitoring (Christina Aures, Christian Beuter, and Alexandra Kirsch). In: Mensch und Computer, 2017.

Using Stories to Create Qualitative Representations of Motion (Juan Purcalla Arrufi, Alexandra Kirsch), In Problem-solving, Creativity and Spatial Reasoning Symposium (ProSocrates), 2017.

Indoor Localisation with Beacons for a User-Friendly Mobile Tour Guide (Tobias Kaulich, Thomas Heine, Alexandra Kirsch), In Künstliche Intelligenz, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s13218-017-0496-6. [pdf]

Smart Environments: What is it and why should we care? (Diedrich Wolter, Alexandra Kirsch), In Künstliche Intelligenz, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s13218-017-0498-4. [pdf]

Sensor Fusion for Semantic Place Labeling (Roman Roor, Jonas Hess, Matteo Saveriano, Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS), 2017. doi: 10.5220/0006365601210131. [pdf]

Predictive Ridesharing based on Personal Mobility Patterns (Roman Roor, Michael Karg, Andy Liao, Wenhui Lei, Alexandra Kirsch), In Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2017. [pdf]

2016

Modeling Human Problem Solving with Data from an Online Game (Tim Rach, Alexandra Kirsch), In Cognitive Processing 17(4), 2016, doi:10.1007/s10339-016-0767-4.

A Short-Term Memory for Deliberative Agents in Everyday Environments (Ivo Chichkov, Alexandra Kirsch), In 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI), 2016.

Heuristic Decision-Making for Human-aware Navigation in Domestic Environments (Alexandra Kirsch), In 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI), 2016.

Modelling Human Navigation: Cognitive Aspects of Obstacle Avoidance. (Purcalla Arrufi) In T. Barkowsky, Z. F. Llansola, H. Schultheis, & J. van de Ven (Eds.), 13th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (pp. 245–247). Bremen, Germany, 2016.

2015

Leveraging Qualitative Reasoning to Learning Manipulation Tasks (Diedrich Wolter, Alexandra Kirsch), In Robotics, volume 4, 2015.

Acquisition and Use of Mobility Habits for Personal Assistants (Lukas Nack, Michael Karg, Roman Roor, Olga Birth, Alexandra Kirsch), In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2015 [pdf]

Prototype-based Knowledge Representation for an Improved Human-robot Interaction (Alisa Volkert, Alexandra Kirsch), In M. Jipp, A. Kluge, D. Söffker, A. Wendemuth (Eds.): Kognitive Systeme. Duisburg/Essen: DuEPublico, 2015. [pdf]

Prototype-based Knowledge Representation of Everyday Objects (Alisa Volkert, Alexandra Kirsch), In Proceedings 4. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme: Mensch, Teams, Systeme und Automaten, 2015. [pdf]

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning for Boosting Learning-Based Robotics (Diedrich Wolter, Alexandra Kirsch), IROS Workshop Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion, 2015 [pdf]

2014

Planning in the Wild: Modeling Tools for PDDL (Volker Strobel, Alexandra Kirsch), In 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2014.[pdf]

Social acceptability of opportunistic behaviour of an assistant robot in human-robot everyday collaboration (Nataliia Kushnirenko, Alexandra Kirsch), In Workshop ``Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren, Entwerfen'', held in conjunction with German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2014. [pdf]

Low Cost Activity Recognition Using Depth Cameras and Context Dependent Spatial Regions (Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2014. [pdf]

Evaluating directional cost models in navigation (Thibault Kruse, Alexandra Kirsch, Rachid Alami, Harmish Khambaitha), In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2014. [pdf]

Goal-Predictability vs. Trajectory-Predictability - Which Legibility Factor Counts (Christina Lichtenthäler, Alexandra Kirsch), In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI late breaking report), 2014. [pdf]

Low Cost Activity Recognition Using Depth Cameras and Context Dependent Spatial Regions (Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Extended Abstract, 2014. [pdf]

A Human Morning Routine Dataset (Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Extended Abstract, 2014. [pdf]

2013

Planen (Alexandra Kirsch, Josef Schneeberger), Chapter in Handbuch der Künstlichen Intelligenz (Günther Görz, Josef Schneeberger, Ute Schmid, eds.), Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2013.

Human-Robot Interaction (Alexandra Kirsch), Chapter in Computation for Humanity: Information Technology to Advance Society (Justyna Zander, Pieter Mosterman, eds.), CRC Press, 2013.

Human-aware robot navigation: A survey (Thibault Kruse, Amit Kumar Pandey, Rachid Alami, Alexandra Kirsch), In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013. [pdf]

Strategies of locomotor collision avoidance (Patrizia Basili, Murat Saglam, Thibault Kruse, Markus Huber, Alexandra Kirsch, Stefan Glasauer), In Gait & Posture, 2013, volume 37, p. 385-390. [pdf]

An Expectations Framework for Domestic Robot Assistants (Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2013. [pdf]

Towards Legible Robot Navigation - How to Increase the Intend Expressiveness of Robot Navigation Behavior (Christina Lichtenthäler, Alexandra Kirsch), In International Conference on Social Robotics - Workshop Embodied Communication of Goals and Intentions, 2013. [pdf]

Social Navigation - Identifying Robot Navigation Patterns in a Path Crossing Scenario (Christina Lichtenthäler, Annika Peters, Sascha Griffiths, Alexandra Kirsch), In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2013. [pdf]

Simultaneous Plan Recognition and Monitoring (SPRAM) for Robot Assistants (Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In Human Robot Collaboration Workshop 2013, in conjunction with RSS 2013, 2013. [pdf]

Be a Robot ! Robot Navigation Patterns in a Path Crossing Scenario (Christina Lichtenthäler, Annika Peters, Sascha Griffiths, Alexandra Kirsch), In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2013. [pdf]

2012

Integration von Programmieren und Lernen in eine Steuerungssprache für autonome Roboter (Alexandra Kirsch), In KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, volume 26, 2012. [pdf]

Hierarchical Knowledge for Heuristic Problem Solving --- A Case Study on the Traveling Salesperson Problem (Alexandra Kirsch), In First Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2012. [pdf]

Influence of Legibility on Perceived Safety in a Virtual Human-Robot Path Crossing Task (Christina Lichtenthaeler, Tamara Lorenz, Alexandra Kirsch), In 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2012. [pdf]

Acquisition and Use of Transferable, Spatio-Temporal Plan Representations for Human-Robot Interaction (Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [pdf]

Legible Robot Navigation in the Proximity of Moving Humans (Thibault Kruse, Patrizia Basili, Stefan Glasauer, Alexandra Kirsch), In IEEE workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, 2012. [pdf]

Increasing Perceived Value Between Human and Robots - Measuring Legibility in Human Aware Navigation (Christina Lichtenthaeler, Tamara Lorenz, Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch), In IEEE workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, 2012. [pdf]

Human-Robot Interaction in the MORSE Simulator (S. Lemaignan, Echeverria G., M. Karg, M. Mainprice, A. Kirsch, R. Alami), In Proceedings of the 2012 Human-Robot Interaction Conference (late breaking report), 2012. [pdf]

2011

Towards a Legibility Metric: How to Measure the Perceived Value of a Robot (Christina Lichtenthäler, Tamara Lorenz, Alexandra Kirsch), In International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2011, Work-In-Progress-Track, 2011. [pdf]

Humanlike Problem Solving in the Context of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (Alexandra Kirsch), In AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2011. [pdf]

Towards Expectation-based Failure Recognition for Human Robot Interaction (Michael Karg, Martin Sachenbacher, Alexandra Kirsch), In 22nd International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, Special Track on Open Problem Descriptions, 2011. [pdf]

2010

Plan-based Control of Joint Human-Robot Activities (Alexandra Kirsch, Thibault Kruse, E. Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami, Martin Lawitzky, Dra\vzen Br\vs\vci\'c, Sandra Hirche, Patrizia Basili, Stefan Glasauer), In Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, volume 24, 2010. [pdf]

Towards Opportunistic Action Selection in Human-Robot Cooperation (Thibault Kruse, Alexandra Kirsch), In 33rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010), 2010. [pdf]

A Testbed for Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration (Alexandra Kirsch, Yuxiang Chen), In 33rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010), 2010. [pdf]

Exploiting Human Cooperation in Human-Centered Robot Navigation (Thibault Kruse, Alexandra Kirsch, E. Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami), In IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), 2010. [pdf]

Learning Ability Models for Human-Robot Collaboration (Alexandra Kirsch, Fan Cheng), In Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) --- Workshop on Learning for Human-Robot Interaction Modeling, 2010. [pdf]

Dynamic Generation and Execution of Human Aware Navigation Plans (Thibault Kruse, Alexandra Kirsch, E. Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami), In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2010. [pdf]

Multi Joint Action in CoTeSys --- Setup and Challenges (D. Br\vs\vci\'c, M. Eggers, F. Rohrmüller, O. Kourakos, S. Sosnowski, D. Althoff, M. Lawitzky, A. Mörtl, M. Rambow, V. Koropouli, J.R. Medina Hernández, X. Zang, W. Wang, D. Wollherr, K. Kühnlenz, C. Mayer, T. Kruse, A. Kirsch, J. Blume, A. Bannat, T. Rehrl, F. Wallhoff, T. Lorenz, P. Basili, C. Lenz, T. Röder, G. Panin, W. Maier, S. Hirche, M. Buss, M. Beetz, B. Radig, A. Schubö, S. Glasauer, A. Knoll, E. Steinbach), Technical report, CoTeSys Cluster of Excelence: Technische Universität München & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2010.

Be a Robot --- A Study on Everyday Activities Performed in Real and Virtual Worlds (Alexandra Kirsch), Technical report, Technische Universität München, 2010. [pdf]

2009

Robot Learning Language --- Integrating Programming and Learning for Cognitive Systems (Alexandra Kirsch), In Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, volume 57, 2009. [pdf]

An Integrated Planning and Learning Framework for Human-Robot Interaction (Alexandra Kirsch, Thibault Kruse, Lorenz Mösenlechner), In 4th Workshop on Planning and Plan Execution for Real-World Systems (held in conjuction with ICAPS 09), 2009. [pdf]

2008

Integration of Programming and Learning in a Control Language for Autonomous Robots Performing Everyday Activities (Alexandra Kirsch), PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2008. [pdf]

2007

Transformational Planning for Everyday Activity (Armin Müller, Alexandra Kirsch, Michael Beetz), In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'07), 2007. [pdf]

Training on the Job --- Collecting Experience with Hierarchical Hybrid Automata (Alexandra Kirsch, Michael Beetz), In Proceedings of the 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2007) (J. Hertzberg, M. Beetz, R. Englert, eds.), 2007. [pdf]

The Assistive Kitchen --- A Demonstration Scenario for Cognitive Technical Systems (Michael Beetz, Jan Bandouch, Alexandra Kirsch, Alexis Maldonado, Armin Müller, Radu Bogdan Rusu), In Proceedings of the 4th COE Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM), 2007. [pdf]

2005

Making Robot Learning Controllable: A Case Study in Robot Navigation (Alexandra Kirsch, Michael Schweitzer, Michael Beetz), In Proceedings of the ICAPS Workshop on Plan Execution: A Reality Check, 2005. [pdf]

Towards High-performance Robot Plans with Grounded Action Models: Integrating Learning Mechanisms into Robot Control Languages (Alexandra Kirsch), In ICAPS Doctoral Consortium, 2005. [pdf]

Combining Learning and Programming for High-Performance Robot Controllers (Alexandra Kirsch, Michael Beetz), In Tagungsband Autonome Mobile Systeme 2005, Springer Verlag, 2005. [pdf]

2004

Object-oriented Model-based Extensions of Robot Control Languages (Armin Müller, Alexandra Kirsch, Michael Beetz), In 27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004. [pdf]

AGILO RoboCuppers 2004 (Freek Stulp, Alexandra Kirsch, Suat Gedikli, Michael Beetz), In RoboCup International Symposium 2004, 2004. [pdf]

RPL-LEARN: Extending an Autonomous Robot Control Language to Perform Experience-based Learning (Michael Beetz, Alexandra Kirsch, Armin Müller), In 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2004. [pdf]

2003

Autonomous Robot Controllers Capable of Acquiring Repertoires of Complex Skills (Michael Beetz, Freek Stulp, Alexandra Kirsch, Armin Müller, Sebastian Buck), In RoboCup International Symposium 2003, 2003. [pdf]