This volume brings together, through a peer-revision process, the advanced research results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, primarily discussed for the first time at the Second COST 2102 International Training School on "Development of Multimodal Int- faces: Active Listening and Synchrony" held in Dublin, Ireland, March 23-27 2009. The school was sponsored by COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Sci- tific and Technical Research, www. cost. esf. org ) in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for disseminating the advances of the research activities developed within the COST Action 2102: "Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication" (cost2102. cs. stir. ac. uk) COST Action 2102 in its third year of life brought together about 60 European and 6 overseas scientific laboratories whose aim is to develop interactive dialogue systems and intelligent virtual avatars graphically embodied in a 2D and/or 3D interactive virtual world, capable of interacting intelligently with the environment, other avatars, and particularly with human users.
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Spacing and Orientation in Co-present Interaction. - Group Cohesion, Cooperation and Synchrony in a Social Model of Language Evolution. - Pointing Gestures and Synchronous Communication Management. - How an Agent Can Detect and Use Synchrony Parameter of Its Own Interaction with a Human? . - Accessible Speech-Based and Multimodal Media Center Interface for Users with Physical Disabilities. - A Controller-Based Animation System for Synchronizing and Realizing Human-Like Conversational Behaviors. - Generating Simple Conversations. - Media Differences in Communication. - Towards Influencing of the Conversational Agent Mental State in the Task of Active Listening. - Integrating Emotions in the TRIPLE ECA Model. - Manipulating Stress and Cognitive Load in Conversational Interactions with a Multimodal System for Crisis Management Support. - Sentic Computing: Exploitation of Common Sense for the Development of Emotion-Sensitive Systems. - Face-to-Face Interaction and the KTH Cooking Show. - Affect Listeners: Acquisition of Affective States by Means of Conversational Systems. - Nonverbal Synchrony or Random Coincidence? How to Tell the Difference. - Biometric Database Acquisition Close to Real World Conditions. - Optimizing Phonetic Encoding for Viennese Unit Selection Speech Synthesis. - Advances on the Use of the Foreign Language Recognizer. - Challenges in Speech Processing of Slavic Languages (Case Studies in Speech Recognition of Czech and Slovak). - Multiple Feature Extraction and Hierarchical Classifiers for Emotions Recognition. - Emotional Vocal Expressions Recognition Using the COST 2102 Italian Database of Emotional Speech. - Microintonation Analysis of Emotional Speech. - Speech Emotion Modification Using a Cepstral Vocoder. - Analysis of Emotional Voice Using Electroglottogram-BasedTemporal Measures of Vocal Fold Opening. - Effects of Smiling on Articulation: Lips, Larynx and Acoustics. - Neural Basis of Emotion Regulation. - Automatic Meeting Participant Role Detection by Dialogue Patterns. - Linguistic and Non-verbal Cues for the Induction of Silent Feedback. - Audiovisual Tools for Phonetic and Articulatory Visualization in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training. - Gesture Duration and Articulator Velocity in Plosive-Vowel-Transitions. - Stereo Presentation and Binaural Localization in a Memory Game for the Visually Impaired. - Pathological Voice Analysis and Classification Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition. - Disfluencies and the Perspective of Prosodic Fluency. - Subjective Tests and Automatic Sentence Modality Recognition with Recordings of Speech Impaired Children. - The New Italian Audio and Video Emotional Database. - Spoken Dialogue in Virtual Worlds.
