Affective Dialogue Systems: Tutorial and Research Workshop, Ads 2004, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 14-16, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004)

Emotion Recognition.- From Emotion to Interaction: Lessons from Real Human-Machine-Dialogues.- Emotions in Short Vowel Segments: Effects of the Glottal Flow as Reflected by the Normalized Amplitude Quotient.- Towards Real Life Applications in Emotion Recognition.- Emotion Recognition Using Bio-sensors: First Steps towards an Automatic System.- Neural Architecture for Temporal Emotion Classification.- Affective User Modeling.- Empathic Embodied Interfaces: Addressing Users' Affective State.- Cognitive-Model-Based Interpretation of Emotions in a Multi-modal Dialog System.- Affective Advice Giving Dialogs.- Emotional Databases, Annotation Schemes, and Tools.- A Categorical Annotation Scheme for Emotion in the Linguistic Content of Dialogue.- Data-Driven Tools for Designing Talking Heads Exploiting Emotional Attitudes.- Design of a Hungarian Emotional Database for Speech Analysis and Synthesis.- Affective Conversational Agents and Dialogue Simulation.- Emotion and Dialogue in the MRE Virtual Humans.- Coloring Multi-character Conversations through the Expression of Emotions.- Domain-Oriented Conversation with H.C. Andersen.- Simulating the Emotion Dynamics of a Multimodal Conversational Agent.- Design and First Tests of a Chatter.- Endowing Spoken Language Dialogue Systems with Emotional Intelligence.- Do You Want to Talk About It?.- Application of D-Script Model to Emotional Dialogue Simulation.- Synthesis of Emotional Speech and Facial Animations.- Modeling and Synthesizing Emotional Speech for Catalan Text-to-Speech Synthesis.- Dimensional Emotion Representation as a Basis for Speech Synthesis with Non-extreme Emotions.- Extra-Semantic Protocols; Input Requirements for the Synthesis of Dialogue Speech.- How (Not) to Add Laughter to Synthetic Speech.- Modifications of Speech Articulatory Characteristics in the Emotive Speech.- Expressive Animated Agents for Affective Dialogue Systems.- Affective Tutoring Systems.- Affective Feedback in a Tutoring System for Procedural Tasks.- Generating Socially Appropriate Tutorial Dialog.- Evaluation of Affective Dialogue Systems.- The Role of Affect and Sociality in the Agent-Based Collaborative Learning System.- Evaluation of Synthetic Faces: Human Recognition of Emotional Facial Displays.- How to Evaluate Models of User Affect?.- Preliminary Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Expressiveness in Synthetic Faces.- Demonstrations.- Conversational H.C. Andersen First Prototype Description.- Experiences with an Emotional Sales Agent.- A Freely Configurable, Multi-modal Sensor System for Affective Computing.- Gesture Synthesis in a Real-World ECA.