Brigitte Krenn
Papers
12
Total Citations
108
H-Index
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About
Brigitte Krenn is a leading researcher at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), whose work lies at the intersection of human-robot interaction, multimodal communication, and trustworthy AI. Her research focuses on how robots can understand and produce natural, human-like communication by integrating verbal and non-verbal cues—such as gestures and gaze—for situated reference resolution and grounded word learning. Krenn’s most-cited paper (28 citations) maps communicative modes onto collaborative scenarios for human-robot teamwork in industry, while her work on CoBot Studio VR explores interpretability and trust through virtual reality environments. She has also investigated transparency methods in robot word-learning systems, showing how revealing a robot’s learning process shapes human teaching behaviors. With over 100 citations across her top papers, Krenn’s contributions are foundational for developing robots that can learn language from human tutors in real time, as demonstrated on the Pepper robot. Her cross-disciplinary perspective on trustworthy technology for children and long-term social relationships with assistive robots further underscores her commitment to ethical, human-centered AI.
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- 7Grounded Word Learning on a Pepper Robot7 citations · 2018
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- 9Robot: Multiuse Tool and Ethical Agent4 citations · 2015
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