SmartWeb aims to provide intuitive multimodal access to a rich selection of Web-based
information services. We report on the current prototype with a smartphone client interface to …

We present a robust approach to estimate the 3D pose of human heads in a single image. In
contrast with other research, this method only makes use of the information about the skin …

By embedding information technologies into tangible products a new class of products is
created that we call smart products. Smart products use product information in product …

Multimodal dialogue systems exploit one of the major characteristics of humanhuman
interaction: the coordinated use of different modalities. Allowing all of the modalities to refer …

Multimodal interfaces combining natural modalities such as speech and touch with dynamic
graphical user interfaces can make it easier and more effective for users to interact with …

Question answering (QA) has become one of the fastest growing topics in computational
linguistics and information access. To advance research in the area of dialogue-based …

If no specific precautions are taken, people talking to a computer can—the same way as
while talking to another human—speak aside, either to themselves or to another person. On …

We present the multisensor-pipeline (MSP), a lightweight, flexible, and extensible framework
for prototy** multimodal-multisensor interfaces based on real-time sensor input. Our open …

In this paper we address the question of how traditional approaches to modeling world
knowledge, ie to model shared conceptualizations of specific domains of interest via formal …

In this paper, we present a database with emotional children's speech in a human-robot
scenario: the children were giving instructions to Sony's pet robot dog AIBO, with AIBO …