Member of the Perception and Action Lab
Fritz Becker works as a research assistant in the Perception and Action Lab since July 2020. He is part of IWMs newly founded Human-Agent-Network. In this network, he is researching how humans and agents form a common language base and how to make the interaction less artificial. His doctoral research focuses on skill acquisition and prediction of agent decisions and behavior. He applies learning theories to a cooperative game to explain the learning process from the behavior of another entity. Furthermore, he develops a theoretical basis for a capability assessment of an observer versus an agent depending on the difference of their capabilities.
Fritz Becker finished his den Bachelor and Master of Science degrees (2019) in psychology in Mainz.
Jungmann, S. M., Becker, F., & Witthöft, M. (2022). Erfassung der Lebendigkeit mentaler Vorstellungsbilder: Adaptation und Validierung deutschsprachiger Versionen des Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) und des Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire (PSI-Q). Diagnostica, 68(3), 125-136. https://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000291
Open Access
Becker, F., Spannagl, C. I., Buder, J., & Huff, M. (2024, March 17-20). An agent's reputation and skill affect self-reported trust differently from behavioral trust. 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP) - Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Universität Regensburg. [Talk]
Schenk, C., Becker, F., & Said, N. (2024, March 17-20). Deepening knowledge, preserving opinion: The differential impact of gamification within a depolarization intervention. 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). Universität Regensburg. [Poster]
Becker, F., Buder, J., & Huff, M. (2023, March 26-29). Learning the prediction of skilled behavior. 65. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP) - Conference of Experimental Psychologists. University of Trier. [Talk]
Becker, F., Buder, J., & Huff, M. (2022, July 27-30). Theory of mind as a learning task. 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Toronto, ON, Canada. [Talk]
Becker, F., Buder, J., & Huff, M. (2022, March 20-23). Cognitive functions for cooperation with Artificial Intelligence in a game setting. 64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP) - Conference of Experimental Psychologists. University of Cologne (online conference). [Talk]
Becker, F., Buder, J., & Huff, M. (2022, September 10-15). Can humans learn to anticipate what an agent will do? 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). Hildesheim. [Talk]
Becker, F., Buder, J., Bareiß, J., & Huff, M. (2021, September 8-10). Grounding of humans and agents - Malleability of attitudes towards humans and agents during a grounding task. 12th Media Psychology Conference (Mediapsych2021). Aachen. [Poster]
Fritz Becker
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