Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction: Second International Conference, Acii 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 12-14, 2007, Proceedings (Paperback, 2007)

Affective Facial Expression and Recognition.- Expressive Face Animation Synthesis Based on Dynamic Mapping Method.- Model of Facial Expressions Management for an Embodied Conversational Agent.- Facial Expression Synthesis Using PAD Emotional Parameters for a Chinese Expressive Avatar.- Reconstruction and Recognition of Occluded Facial Expressions Using PCA.- Affective Body Expression and Recognition.- Recognizing Affective Dimensions from Body Posture.- Detecting Affect from Non-stylised Body Motions.- Recognising Human Emotions from Body Movement and Gesture Dynamics.- Person or Puppet? The Role of Stimulus Realism in Attributing Emotion to Static Body Postures.- Motion Capture and Emotion: Affect Detection in Whole Body Movement.- Does Body Movement Engage You More in Digital Game Play? and Why?.- Affective Speech Processing.- A Systematic Comparison of Different HMM Designs for Emotion Recognition from Acted and Spontaneous Speech.- On the Necessity and Feasibility of Detecting a Driver's Emotional State While Driving.- Frame vs. Turn-Level: Emotion Recognition from Speech Considering Static and Dynamic Processing.- Characterizing Emotion in the Soundtrack of an Animated Film: Credible or Incredible?.- Time- and Amplitude-Based Voice Source Correlates of Emotional Portrayals.- Temporal Organization in Listeners' Perception of the Speakers' Emotions and Characteristics: A Way to Improve the Automatic Recognition of Emotion-Related States in Human Voice.- Affective Text and Dialogue Processing.- 'You are Sooo Cool, Valentina!' Recognizing Social Attitude in Speech-Based Dialogues with an ECA.- Assessing Sentiment of Text by Semantic Dependency and Contextual Valence Analysis.- How Rude Are You?: Evaluating Politeness and Affect in Interaction.- Textual Affect Sensing for Sociable and Expressive Online Communication.- Lexical Affect Sensing: Are Affect Dictionaries Necessary to Analyze Affect?.- Affective Text Variation and Animation for Dynamic Advertisement.- Recognising Affect Using Physiological Measures.- Entertainment Modeling in Physical Play Through Physiology Beyond Heart-Rate.- Comprehension of Users' Subjective Interaction States During Their Interaction with an Artificial Agent by Means of Heart Rate Variability Index.- Facial Activation Control Effect (FACE).- Music, Heart Rate, and Emotions in the Context of Stimulating Technologies.- A Multi-method Approach to the Assessment of Web Page Designs.- Computational Models of Emotion and Theoretical Foundations.- Rational Agents That Blush.- Wishful Thinking Revision.- An Empathic Rational Dialog Agent.- Basing Artificial Emotion on Process and Resource Management.- The Benefits of Surprise in Dynamic Environments: From Theory to Practice.- Modulatory Influence of Motivations on a Schema-Based Architecture: A Simulative Study.- Designing an Emotional and Attentive Virtual Infant.- A Bottom-Up Investigation of Emotional Modulation in Competitive Scenarios.- Enthusiasm and Its Contagion: Nature and Function.- Learning to Interact with the Caretaker: A Developmental Approach.- Affective Adaptation of Synthetic Social Behaviour.- Affective Databases, Annotations, Tools and Languages.- What Should a Generic Emotion Markup Language Be Able to Represent?.- Towards Knowledge-Based Affective Interaction: Situational Interpretation of Affect.- Collection and Annotation of a Corpus of Human-Human Multimodal Interactions: Emotion and Others Anthropomorphic Characteristics.- Using Actor Portrayals to Systematically Study Multimodal Emotion Expression: The GEMEP Corpus.- The HUMAINE Database: Addressing the Collection and Annotation of Naturalistic and Induced Emotional Data.- Affective Sound and Music Processing.- User-Centered Control of Audio and Visual Expressive Feedback by Full-Body Movements.- Towards Affective-Psychophysiological Foundations for Music Production.- Sound Design for Affective Interaction.- Affective Interactions: Systems and Applications