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Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions

COST Action 2102 International Conference Prague, Czech Republic, October 15-18, 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Anna Esposito

    1. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Vietri sul Mare, Italy

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  2. Robert Vích

    1. Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5641)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Emotions and ICT

    1. Cross-Fertilization between Studies on ICT Practices of Use and Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

      • Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Esposito, Jane Vincent
      Pages 1-4

    2. Theories without Heart

      • Leopoldina Fortunati
      Pages 5-17

    3. Prosodic Characteristics and Emotional Meanings of Slovak Hot-Spot Words

      • Štefan Beňuš, Milan Rusko
      Pages 18-27

    4. Affiliations, Emotion and the Mobile Phone

      • Jane Vincent
      Pages 28-41

    5. Polish Emotional Speech Database – Recording and Preliminary Validation

      • Piotr Staroniewicz, Wojciech Majewski
      Pages 42-49

    6. Towards a Framework of Critical Multimodal Analysis: Emotion in a Film Trailer

      • Maria Bortoluzzi
      Pages 50-62

    7. Biosignal Based Emotion Analysis of Human-Agent Interactions

      • Evgenia Hristova, Maurice Grinberg, Emilian Lalev
      Pages 63-75

    8. Emotional Aspects in User Experience with Interactive Digital Television: A Case Study on Dyslexia Rehabilitation

      • Filomena Papa, Bartolomeo Sapio
      Pages 76-89

    9. Investigation of Normalised Time of Increasing Vocal Fold Contact as a Discriminator of Emotional Voice Type

      • Peter J. Murphy, Anne-Maria Laukkanen
      Pages 90-97

    10. Evaluation of Speech Emotion Classification Based on GMM and Data Fusion

      • Martin Vondra, Robert Vích
      Pages 98-105

    11. Spectral Flatness Analysis for Emotional Speech Synthesis and Transformation

      • Jiří Přibil, Anna Přibilová
      Pages 106-115

  3. Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Computational Phonetics

    1. Voice Pleasantness of Female Voices and the Assessment of Physical Characteristics

      • Vivien Zuta
      Pages 116-125

    2. Technical and Phonetic Aspects of Speech Quality Assessment: The Case of Prosody Synthesis

      • Jana Tučková, Jan Holub, Tomáš Duběda
      Pages 126-132

    3. Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian

      • Anna Esposito
      Pages 133-148

    4. Perception of Czech in Noise: Stability of Vowels

      • Jitka Veroňková, Zdena Palková
      Pages 149-161

    5. Challenges in Segmenting the Czech Lateral Liquid

      • Radek Skarnitzl
      Pages 162-172

    6. Implications of Acoustic Variation for the Segmentation of the Czech Trill /r/

      • Pavel Machač
      Pages 173-181

    7. Voicing in Labial Plosives in Czech

      • Annett B. Jorschick
      Pages 182-189

    8. Normalization of the Vocalic Space

      • Jan Volín
      Pages 190-200
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About this book

This volume brings together the peer-reviewed contributions of the participants at the COST 2102 International Conference on “Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions” held in Prague, Czech Republic, October 15–18, 2008. The conference was sponsored by COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, www. cost. esf. org/domains_actions/ict) in the - main of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for disseminating the research advances developed within COST Action 2102: “Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication” http://cost2102. cs. stir. ac. uk. COST 2102 research networking has contributed to modifying the conventional theoretical approach to the cross-modal analysis of verbal and nonverbal communi- tion changing the concept of face to face communication with that of body to body communication as well as developing the idea of embodied information. Information is no longer the result of a difference in perception and is no longer measured in terms of quantity of stimuli, since the research developed in COST 2102 has proved that human information processing is a nonlinear process that cannot be seen as the sum of the numerous pieces of information available. Considering simply the pieces of inf- mation available, results in a model of the receiver as a mere decoder, and produces a huge simplification of the communication process.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Vietri sul Mare, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  • Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    Robert Vích

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