Thomas Sievers

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- Research Assistant -


Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, 2. OG, Raum 67

Email: t.sievers(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 3101 5721

Curriculum Vitae

  • Seit 15. Januar 2022 - wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Informationssysteme der Universität zu Lübeck unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Nele Rußwinkel und Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller.
  • Okt. 2020 - Apr. 2024 Teilnehmer am Advanced Study Programme in AI der Universität zu Lübeck.
  • Selbstständige Tätigkeit als Web-Entwickler.
  • Okt. 1988 - Apr. 1992 Studium der Elektrotechnik an der Universität der Bundeswehr in Hamburg mit Abschluss Dipl. Ing.

Forschungsinteressen

  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Cognitive Robotics
  • Social Robots
  • Developmental Robotics
  • Information Retrieval

Publikationen

2025

Thomas Sievers,
A Practical Approach to Child-Robot Interaction in the Classroom, in Child-AI Interaction in the Era of Foundation Models , Burlingame, CA, USA, March 31 - April 2, 2025 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2025.
Weblink: https://aaai.org/conference/spring-symposia/sss25/
Thomas Sievers,
Retrieving Memories from a Cognitive Architecture Using Language Models for Social Robot Applications, 1st German Robotics Conference, Nuremberg, March 13-15, Robotics Institute Germany, 2025.
Datei: Dateilink
Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
Using Memory Contents of a Cognitive Model for Prompt Augmentation of a Large Language Model, in IEEE CogSIMA 2025 Conference Proceedings , 2025 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA), 2025.
Thomas Sievers, Nele Russwinkel, and Ralf Möller,
Grounding a social robot's understanding of words with associations in a cognitive architecture, International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Porto, February 23-25, 2025.
DOI:10.5220/0013144200003890
Bibtex: BibTeX
@conference{icaart25,
author={Thomas Sievers and Nele Russwinkel and Ralf Möller},
title={Grounding a Social Robot’s Understanding of Words with Associations in a Cognitive Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART},
year={2025},
pages={406-410},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013144200003890},
isbn={978-989-758-737-5},
issn={2184-433X},
}
Thomas Sievers,
Silence is Golden - Making Pauses in Human Utterances Comprehensible for Social Robots in Human-Robot Interaction, in 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) , 2025. pp. 526-531.
DOI:10.1109/SII59315.2025.10871032
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{10871032,
  author={Sievers, Thomas},
  booktitle={2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)}, 
  title={Silence is Golden - Making Pauses in Human Utterances Comprehensible for Social Robots in Human-Robot Interaction *}, 
  year={2025},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={526-531},
  keywords={Sentiment analysis;Large language models;Social robots;System integration;Speech recognition;Chatbots;Text to speech},
  doi={10.1109/SII59315.2025.10871032}}

2024

Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
Dialect, sentiment analysis, tonality, cognitive modeling – using LLMs as a toolbox for HRI, in LLMs in the RoMan Age , Workshop at the 33nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024), 2024.
Weblink: https://sites.google.com/view/llmra/start
Datei: Dateilink
Thomas Sievers, and Ralf Möller,
Get it right: Improving Comprehensibility with adaptable Speech Expression of a Humanoid Service Robot, in AMLDA 2023: Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics , 2024. pp. 1-14.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-55486-5_1
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{SiMo,
author ={Thomas Sievers and Ralf M\"oller},
title ={Get it right: Improving Comprehensibility with adaptable Speech Expression of a Humanoid Service Robot},
booktitle ={6th International Conference on Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics (AMLDA)},
year ={2023},
pages = {},
publisher = {},
url ={},
keywords ={Social Robot; Human-Robot Interaction; Easy Language; Comprehensibility; Translation},
}
Alexander Werk, Sina Scholz, Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
How to Provide a Dynamic Cognitive Person Model of a Human Collaboration Partner to a Pepper Robot, in ICCM , Society for Mathematical Psychology, 2024.
Weblink: https://mathpsych.org/presentation/1452
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{WeSchoSiRuICCM24,
  author    = {Alexander Werk and Sina Scholz and Thomas Sievers and Nele Russwinkel},
  title     = {{How to Provide a Dynamic Cognitive Person Model of a Human Collaboration Partner to a Pepper Robot}},
  booktitle = {ICCM},
  year      = {2024},
month = {7},
  volume    = {},
  pages     = {},
  publisher = {Society for Mathematical Psychology}
}
Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
How to use a cognitive architecture for a dynamic person model with a social robot in human collaboration, in Workshop "Robots for Humans" , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2024.
Weblink: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3794/
Datei: paper2.pdf
Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
Interacting with a Sentimental Robot - Making Human Emotions tangible for a Social Robot via ChatGPT, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO) , 2024. pp. 182-187.
DOI:10.1109/ARSO60199.2024.10557749
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{10557749,
  author={Sievers, Thomas and Russwinkel, Nele},
  title={{Interacting with a Sentimental Robot – Making Human Emotions tangible for a Social Robot via ChatGPT*}}, 
 booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO 2024)}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={182--187},
  keywords={Emotion recognition;Sentiment analysis;Analytical models;Mood;Social robots;Oral communication;Chatbots},
  doi={10.1109/ARSO60199.2024.10557749}
}
Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
Introducing a note of levity to human-robot interaction with dialogs containing irony, sarcasm and jocularity, in IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) , 2024.
DOI:10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731234
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{10731234,
  author={Sievers, Thomas and Russwinkel, Nele},
  booktitle={2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN)}, 
  title={Introducing a note of levity to human-robot interaction with dialogs containing irony, sarcasm and jocularity *}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={763-768},
  keywords={Atmospheric measurements;Social robots;Oral communication;Particle measurements;Chatbots;Distance measurement;Robots},
  doi={10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731234}}
Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
Project Report: Requirements for a Social Robot as an Information Provider in the Public Sector, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz , vol. 37, no. 2-4, 2024.
DOI:10.1007/s13218-024-00840-1
Bibtex: BibTeX
@JOUR{10557749,
  author={Sievers, Thomas and Russwinkel, Nele},
  booktitle={KI - Künstliche Intelligenz}, 
  title={Project Report: Requirements for a Social Robot as an Information Provider in the Public Sector}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={37},
  number={2-4},
  pages={},
  keywords={Human-robot interaction;Social robotics;Public sector;ACT-R},
  doi={10.1007/s13218-024-00840-1}}
Edgar Baake, Florian König, Claudius Pott, Thomas Sievers, and Moreen Heine,
User Experience Comparison of a Social Robot vs. Info Terminal in Citizen Services, 16th International Conference on Social Robotics, Odense, 2024.
Thomas Sievers, Nele Russwinkel, and Ralf Möller,
What am I? – Complementing a robot’s task-solving capabilities with a mental model using a cognitive architecture, in Behavior Adaptation and Learning for Assistive Robotics , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2024.
Weblink: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3906/
Datei: paper1_BAILAR.pdf

2023

Thomas Sievers, Magnus Bender, and Ralf Möller,
Connecting AI Technologies as Online Services to a Humanoid Service Robot, in 15th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE) , IEEE, 2023. pp. 431-435.
DOI:10.1109/ICCAE56788.2023.10111181
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{SiBeMo,
author ={Thomas Sievers and Magnus Bender and Ralf M\"oller},
title ={Connecting AI Technologies as Online Services to a Humanoid Service Robot},
booktitle ={15th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE)},
year ={2023},
pages = {431-435},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
url ={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCAE56788.2023.10111181},
keywords ={Humanoid Robot; Human-Robot Interaction; Application Programming Interface; AI Democratization},
}
Thomas Sievers, and Nele Russwinkel,
Talking like one of us: Effects of using regional language in a Humanoid Social Robot, in Social Robotics , Springer, Singapore, 2023. pp. 71-80.
DOI:10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4_7
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{SiRu,
author ={Thomas Sievers and Nele Russwinkel},
title ={Talking like one of us: Effects of using regional language in a Humanoid Social Robot},
booktitle ={Social Robotics},
year ={2023},
pages = {71-80},
publisher = {Springer, Singapore},
url ={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4_7},
keywords ={Social Robots; Human-Robot Interaction; Regional Language; Communication; Cultural Identity},
}