Silence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence. This is especially true in
social interactions: consider the difference between silence after" lemme think," and silence …

Former United States President Ronald Reagan's use of media and his charismatic
connection with viewers earned him the moniker “the great communicator”. One aspect of …

Social signals are integral to conversational interaction and constitute a large part of the
social dynamics of multiparty communication. Moreover, social signals may also have a …

Much talk between humans is face-to-face, casual, multiparty, and of indefinite duration.
Such casual conversation or social talk facilitates social bonding and mutual co-presence …

3 recommended silence as the means for expressing that which could not be expressed
using language (see also Polanyi, 1962). Maitra (2004) similarly probed the limits of …

In this work, we experiment with the use of smiling and laughter in order to help create more
natural and efficient listening agents. We present preliminary results on a system which …

Raucous audience applause–cheering, laughter, and even booing by a passionately
involved electorate marked the 2016 presidential debates from the start of the primary …

This work explores laughter within a corpus of three-party, task-based dialogs with native
and non-native speakers of English, each consisting of two players and a facilitator, in …

I started the research described in this book with the attractive and inspiring idea of Artificial
Companions that will be our helpers, our little artificial friends. They will know us and our …

This paper reports a study of attitude manifestations in video blogs. We describe the manual
annotation of speaker attitudes in a corpus of over 130 video blogs and present an analysis …