Patrick Gebhard Patrick Gebhard is a Research Fellow and Principal Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI) in Saarbrücken, Germany. Since 2024, he is co-head of the Social Cognitive Affect AI (SCAAI) group in the Cognitive Assistants department. His research focuses on Affective Computing, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence centered on human emotional intelligence, mental processes, and its employment for human-computer interaction. He has fully coordinated or led work packages in several national and European research projects and has a long-term involvement in several research related activities and communities. He acquired long-term experience with computational models of affect, interpersonal relationship, trust, and social behaviour and their use for modelling and evaluation of socially interactive agent systems in different domains.
Research Interests: Computationally modelling of affect, interpersonal relationships, and social behaviour, socially interactive agents, social training, therapeutic assistive systems.
In the group: Group leader, projects and research management. Responsible for computational models of emotion, emotion regulation, and social behavior models for socially interactive agents.
Home Page: https://www.dfki.de/~gebhard/
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