Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours: COST Action 2102 International Workshop, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29-31, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Anna Esposito (auth.), Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Eric Keller, Maria Marinaro (eds.)3540764410, 9783540764410

This volume brings together the invited papers and selected participants’ contributions presented at the COST 2102 International Workshop on “Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours”, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29–31, 2007. The workshop was jointly organized by the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Psychology of the Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy, and the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies “Eduardo R. Caianiello”(IIASS), Vietri sul Mare, Italy. The workshop was a COST 2102 event, and it was mainly sponsored by the COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action 2102 in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as well as by the above-mentioned organizing Institutions. The main theme of the workshop was to discuss the fundamentals of verbal and nonverbal communication features and their relationships with the identification of a person, his/her socio-cultural background and personal traits. In the past decade, a number of different research communities within the psychological and computational sciences have tried to characterize human behaviour in face-to-face communication by several features that describe relationships between facial, prosodic/voice quality, formal and informal communication modes, cultural differences, individual and socio-cultural variations, stable personality traits and degrees of expressiveness and emphasis, as well as the individuation of the interlocutor’s emotional and psychological states.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
COST 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication (CAVeNC)….Pages 1-10
Annotation Schemes for Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication: Some General Issues….Pages 11-22
Presenting in Style by Virtual Humans….Pages 23-36
Analysis of Nonverbal Involvement in Dyadic Interactions….Pages 37-50
Children’s Perception of Musical Emotional Expressions….Pages 51-64
Emotional Style Conversion in the TTS System with Cepstral Description….Pages 65-73
Meaningful Parameters in Emotion Characterisation….Pages 74-84
Prosodic and Gestural Expression of Interactional Agreement….Pages 85-98
Gesture, Prosody and Lexicon in Task-Oriented Dialogues: Multimedia Corpus Recording and Labelling….Pages 99-110
Egyptian Grunts and Transportation Gestures….Pages 111-116
On the Use of NonVerbal Speech Sounds in Human Communication….Pages 117-128
Speech Spectrum Envelope Modeling….Pages 129-137
Using Prosody in Fixed Stress Languages for Improvement of Speech Recognition….Pages 138-149
Single-Channel Noise Suppression by Wavelets in Spectral Domain….Pages 150-164
Voice Source Change During Fundamental Frequency Variation….Pages 165-173
A Gesture-Based Concept for Speech Movement Control in Articulatory Speech Synthesis….Pages 174-189
A Novel Psychoacoustically Motivated Multichannel Speech Enhancement System….Pages 190-199
Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Acoustic Signals with the Dresden UASR System….Pages 200-218
VideoTRAN: A Translation Framework for Audiovisual Face-to-Face Conversations….Pages 219-226
Spoken and Multimodal Communication Systems in Mobile Settings….Pages 227-241
Multilingual Augmentative Alternative Communication System….Pages 242-249
Analysis and Synthesis of Multimodal Verbal and Non-verbal Interaction for Animated Interface Agents….Pages 250-263
Generating Nonverbal Signals for a Sensitive Artificial Listener….Pages 264-274
Low-Complexity Algorithms for Biometric Recognition….Pages 275-285
Towards to Mobile Multimodal Telecommunications Systems and Services….Pages 286-293
Embodied Conversational Agents in Wizard-of-Oz and Multimodal Interaction Applications….Pages 294-309
Telling Stories with a Synthetic Character: Understanding Inter-modalities Relations….Pages 310-323
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