Paralinguistic analysis is increasingly turning into a mainstream topic in speech and
language processing. This article aims to provide a broad overview of the constantly …

During face-to-face human interaction, nonverbal communication plays a fundamental role.
A relevant aspect that takes part during social interactions is represented by mirroring, in …

With the emergence of low-cost wearable hardware for eye activity analysis comes the
opportunity to use pupil and blink behavior during conversations to improve human …

This paper details a method of collecting video and audio recordings of people inter-acting
with a simple robot interlocutor. The interaction is recorded via a number of cameras and …

This paper presents a method and a tool to collect data of initiation stages in conversational
interaction in order to better understand how humans talk to machines. This is done by …

Spoken and multi-modal dialogue systems start to use listener vocalizations, such as uh-huh
and mm-hm, for natural interaction. Generation of listener vocalizations is one of the major …

With the ever-increasing role of computers in many areas of today's society, humanmachine
interaction has become an increasingly prominent part of our daily life. Machines and the …

Conversation is an important part of human interaction. The desire to build human-like
systems poses an imperative to understand human mental and emotional states during …

Speech is broadly considered as being the most natural communication form for humans.
Obviously, there are manifold applications opening up for general technical and computer …