COST 2102 Conference 2008: Prague, Czech Republic

Emotions and ICT

• Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Esposito, Jane Vincent:
  Cross-Fertilization between Studies on ICT Practices of Use and Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication. 1-4
  
• Leopoldina Fortunati:
  Theories without Heart. 5-17
  
• Stefan Benus, Milan Rusko:
  Prosodic Characteristics and Emotional Meanings of Slovak Hot-Spot Words. 18-27
  
• Jane Vincent:
  Affiliations, Emotion and the Mobile Phone. 28-41
  
• Piotr Staroniewicz, Wojciech Majewski:
  Polish Emotional Speech Database - Recording and Preliminary Validation. 42-49
  
• Maria Bortoluzzi:
  Towards a Framework of Critical Multimodal Analysis: Emotion in a Film Trailer. 50-62
  
• Evgenia Hristova, Maurice Grinberg, Emilian Lalev:
  Biosignal Based Emotion Analysis of Human-Agent Interactions. 63-75
  
• Filomena Papa, Bartolomeo Sapio:
  Emotional Aspects in User Experience with Interactive Digital Television: A Case Study on Dyslexia Rehabilitation. 76-89
  
• Peter J. Murphy, Anne-Maria Laukkanen:
  Investigation of Normalised Time of Increasing Vocal Fold Contact as a Discriminator of Emotional Voice Type. 90-97
  
• Martin Vondra, Robert Vích:
  Evaluation of Speech Emotion Classification Based on GMM and Data Fusion. 98-105
  
• Jiri Pribil, Anna Pribilová:
  Spectral Flatness Analysis for Emotional Speech Synthesis and Transformation. 106-115
  

Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Computational Phonetics

• Vivien Zuta:
  Voice Pleasantness of Female Voices and the Assessment of Physical Characteristics. 116-125
  
• Jana Tucková, Jan Holub, Tomás Dubeda:
  Technical and Phonetic Aspects of Speech Quality Assessment: The Case of Prosody Synthesis. 126-132
  
• Anna Esposito:
  Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian. 133-148
  
• Jitka Veronková, Zdena Palková:
  Perception of Czech in Noise: Stability of Vowels. 149-161
  
• Radek Skarnitzl:
  Challenges in Segmenting the Czech Lateral Liquid. 162-172
  
• Pavel Machac:
  Implications of Acoustic Variation for the Segmentation of the Czech Trill /r/. 173-181
  
• Annett B. Jorschick:
  Voicing in Labial Plosives in Czech. 182-189
  
• Jan Volín:
  Normalization of the Vocalic Space. 190-200
  

Algorithmic and Theoretical Analysis of Multimodal Interfaces

• Helena Grillon, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maïm, Daniel Thalmann:
  Gaze Behaviors for Virtual Crowd Characters. 201-213
  
• Nicla Rossini:
  Gestural Abstraction and Restatement: From Iconicity to Metaphor. 214-226
  
• Maciej Karpinski:
  Preliminary Prosodic and Gestural Characteristics of Instructing Acts in Polish Task-Oriented Dialogues. 227-238
  
• Ewa Jarmolowicz-Nowikow:
  Polish Children's Gesticulation in Narrating (Re-telling) a Cartoon. 239-247
  
• Yiannis Laouris, Elena Aristodemou, Pantelis Makris:
  Prediction of Learning Abilities Based on a Cross-Modal Evaluation of Non-verbal Mental Attributes Using Video-Game-Like Interfaces. 248-265
  
• David Sztahó, Katalin Nagy, Klára Vicsi:
  Automatic Sentence Modality Recognition in Children's Speech, and Its Usage Potential in the Speech Therapy. 266-275
  
• Rieks op den Akker, Dennis Hofs, Hendri Hondorp, Harm op den Akker, Job Zwiers, Anton Nijholt:
  Supporting Engagement and Floor Control in Hybrid Meetings. 276-290
  
• Hui Fang, Nicholas Costen:
  Behavioral Consistency Extraction for Face Verification. 291-305
  
• Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy:
  Protecting Face Biometric DCT Templates by Means of Pseudo-random Permutations. 306-314
  
• Zahid Riaz, Christoph Mayer, Michael Beetz, Bernd Radig:
  Facial Expressions Recognition from Image Sequences. 315-323
  
• Josef Chaloupka, Zdenek Chaloupka:
  Czech Artificial Computerized Talking Head George. 324-330
  
• Simone Cifani, Andrew Abel, Amir Hussain, Stefano Squartini, Francesco Piazza:
  An Investigation into Audiovisual Speech Correlation in Reverberant Noisy Environments. 331-343
  
• Dominik Bauer, Jim Kannampuzha, Bernd J. Kröger:
  Articulatory Speech Re-synthesis: Profiting from Natural Acoustic Speech Data. 344-355
  
• Alessio Pignotti, Daniele Marcozzi, Simone Cifani, Stefano Squartini, Francesco Piazza:
  A Blind Source Separation Based Approach for Speech Enhancement in Noisy and Reverberant Environment. 356-367
  
• Jan Janda:
  Quantitative Analysis of the Relative Local Speech Rate. 368-376
  
• Josef Rajnoha, Petr Pollák:
  Czech Spontaneous Speech Collection and Annotation: The Database of Technical Lectures. 377-385
  
• Jakub Petkov, Zbynek Koldovský:
  BSSGUI - A Package for Interactive Control of Blind Source Separation Algorithms in MATLAB. 386-398
  
• Václav Hanzl, Petr Pollák:
  Accuracy Analysis of Generalized Pronunciation Variant Selection in ASR Systems. 399-408
  
• Rytis Maskeliunas, Algimantas Rudzionis, Vytautas Rudzionis:
  Analysis of the Possibilities to Adapt the Foreign Language Speech Recognition Engines for the Lithuanian Spoken Commands Recognition. 409-422
  
• Jan Silovský, Petr Cerva, Jindrich Zdánský:
  MLLR Transforms Based Speaker Recognition in Broadcast Streams. 423-431