Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems

- Preface

- Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering

- Directions and Needs

I: Making Dialogues More Natural: Empirical Work and Applied Theory
- Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents
- A First Experiment in Engagement for Human-Robot Interaction in Hosting Activities

II: 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

III: Animated Talking Heads and Evaluation
- The Psychology and Technology of Talking Heads: Applications in Language Learning
- Effective Interaction with Talking Animated Agents in Dialogue Systems
- Controlling the Gaze of Conversational Agents

IV: 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

- Index