The main topic of this volume is natural multimodal interaction. The book is unique in that it brings together a great many contributions regarding aspects of natural and multimodal interaction written by many of the important actors in the field. Topics addressed include talking heads, conversational agents, tutoring systems, multimodal communication, machine learning, architectures for multimodal dialogue systems, systems evaluation, and data annotation.

Zusammenfassung
References 74 Part II Annotation and Analysis of Multimodal Data: Speech and Gesture 4 FORM 79 Craig H. Martell 1. Introduction 79 2. Structure of FORM 80 3. Annotation Graphs 85 4. Annotation Example 86 5. Preliminary Inter-Annotator Agreement Results 88 6. Conclusion: Applications to HLT and HCI? 90 Appendix: Other Tools, Schemes and Methods of Gesture Analysis 91 References 95 5 97 On the Relationships among Speech, Gestures, and Object Manipulation in Virtual Environments: Initial Evidence Andrea Corradini and Philip R. Cohen 1. Introduction 97 2. Study 99 3. Data Analysis 101 4. Results 103 5. Discussion 106 6. Related Work 106 7. Future Work 108 8. Conclusions 108 Appendix: Questionnaire MYST III - EXILE 110 References 111 6 113 Analysing Multimodal Communication Patrick G. T. Healey, Marcus Colman and Mike Thirlwell 1. Introduction 113 2. Breakdown and Repair 117 3. Analysing Communicative Co-ordination 125 4. Discussion 126 References 127 7 131 Do Oral Messages Help Visual Search? Noëlle Carbonell and Suzanne Kieffer 1. Context and Motivation 131 2. Methodology and Experimental Set-Up 134 3. Results: Presentation and Discussion 141 4. Conclusion 153 References 154 Contents vii 8 159 Geometric and Statistical Approaches to Audiovisual Segmentation Trevor Darrell, John W. Fisher III, Kevin W. Wilson, and Michael R. Siracusa 1. Introduction 159 2. Related Work 160 3. Multimodal Multisensor Domain 162 4. Results 166 5. Single Multimodal Sensor Domain 167 6.

Inhalt
Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering - Directions and Needs.- Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering - Directions and Needs.- Making Dialogues More Natural: Empirical Work and Applied Theory.- Social Dialongue with Embodied Conversational Agents.- A First Experiment in Engagement for Human-Robot Interaction in Hosting Activities.- Annotation and Analysis of Multimodal Data: Speech and Gesture.- Form.- On the Relationships Among Speech, Gestures, and Object Manipulation in Virtual Environments: Initial Evidence.- Analysing Multimodal Communication.- Do Oral Messages Help Visual Search?.- Geometric and Statistical Approaches to Audiovisual Segmentation.- Animated Talking Heads and Evaluation.- The Psychology and Technology of Talking Heads: Applications in Language Learning.- Effective Interaction with Talking Animated Agents an Dialogue Systems.- Controlling the Gaze of Conversational Agents.- Architectures and Technologies for Advanced and Adaptive Multimodal Dialogue Systems.- Mind: A Context-Based Multimodal Interpretation Framework in Conversational Systems.- A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Miamm A Multimodal Dialogue System Using Haptics.- Adaptive Human-Computer Dialogue.- Machine Learning Approaches to Human Dialogue Modelling.