Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo
Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo (B.Sc.)
Research assistant
Details:
Ohenewa completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in media communication at the University of Würzburg with a focus on media informatics. During her master's studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Computer Science V on the project „(Anti-)Diskriminierung am Arbeitsplatz: Perspektivwechsel durch Virtual Reality” ((Anti-)Discrimination in the Workplace: Perspective Change through Virtual Reality) in collaboration with Denkfabrik Diversität. As part of her master's thesis, she examined how non-native speakers evaluate foreigner-directed speech conducted by intelligent virtual agents (IVAs).
Currently, she is responsible for the transformation experiment "WueMue: Waste Separation, Avoidance, and Recycling at the JMU Würzburg" as a research associate.
Research areas:
- Research on culture, discrimination, and diversity using IVAs
- IVAs in language research
- Use of IVAs to improve sustainability
- Virtual Reality
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Contact Details
Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo
Chair for Computer Science V
Socially Interactive Agents
Universität Würzburg
Am Hubland (Campus Süd)
D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
E-Mail: tba
Tel: tba
Room: F186 (Experimentelle Physik 2) / B103 (Gebäude M2)
Consultation-Hour: by appointment
