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Birte Carlmeyer is a leading researcher in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), specializing in how people intuitively communicate with intelligent, social robots in domestic environments. Her work centers on multi-modal interaction, attention modeling, and incremental dialogue processing, with a focus on creating robots that can seamlessly integrate into smart homes. Carlmeyer’s most-cited paper (29 citations) presents a multi-modal corpus of user interactions with an intelligent environment, revealing how naive users naturally address a robotic apartment. Her influential study “Welcome to the Future” (28 citations) further explores these intuitive communication patterns, while “Are you talking to me?” (25 citations) investigates multi-party dialogue and active attention arbitration using the humanoid robot Meka. She has also pioneered closed feedback loops in HRI by combining incremental natural language processing with dialogue management, and developed a “hesitating robot” that dynamically adjusts its behavior based on human attention. Her work on emotion modeling using the Flobi robot head demonstrates her commitment to making social robots more expressive and human-like. With a growing citation record and foundational contributions to natural, intuitive human-robot communication, Carlmeyer is shaping the future of socially aware robotic assistants.