Spacing and Orientation in Co-present Interaction.- Group Cohesion, Cooperation and Synchrony in a Social Model of Language Evolution.- Pointing Gestures and Synchronous Communication Management.- How an Agent Can Detect and Use Synchrony Parameter of Its Own Interaction with a Human?.- Accessible Speech-Based and Multimodal Media Center Interface for Users with Physical Disabilities.- A Controller-Based Animation System for Synchronizing and Realizing Human-Like Conversational Behaviors.- Generating Simple Conversations.- Media Differences in Communication.- Towards Influencing of the Conversational Agent Mental State in the Task of Active Listening.- Integrating Emotions in the TRIPLE ECA Model.- Manipulating Stress and Cognitive Load in Conversational Interactions with a Multimodal System for Crisis Management Support.- Sentic Computing: Exploitation of Common Sense for the Development of Emotion-Sensitive Systems.- Face-to-Face Interaction and the KTH Cooking Show.- Affect Listeners: Acquisition of Affective States by Means of Conversational Systems.- Nonverbal Synchrony or Random Coincidence? How to Tell the Difference.- Biometric Database Acquisition Close to “Real World” Conditions.- Optimizing Phonetic Encoding for Viennese Unit Selection Speech Synthesis.- Advances on the Use of the Foreign Language Recognizer.- Challenges in Speech Processing of Slavic Languages (Case Studies in Speech Recognition of Czech and Slovak).- Multiple Feature Extraction and Hierarchical Classifiers for Emotions Recognition.- Emotional Vocal Expressions Recognition Using the COST 2102 Italian Database of Emotional Speech.- Microintonation Analysis of Emotional Speech.- Speech Emotion Modification Using a Cepstral Vocoder.- Analysis of Emotional Voice Using Electroglottogram-BasedTemporal Measures of Vocal Fold Opening.- Effects of Smiling on Articulation: Lips, Larynx and Acoustics.- Neural Basis of Emotion Regulation.- Automatic Meeting Participant Role Detection by Dialogue Patterns.- Linguistic and Non-verbal Cues for the Induction of Silent Feedback.- Audiovisual Tools for Phonetic and Articulatory Visualization in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training.- Gesture Duration and Articulator Velocity in Plosive-Vowel-Transitions.- Stereo Presentation and Binaural Localization in a Memory Game for the Visually Impaired.- Pathological Voice Analysis and Classification Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition.- Disfluencies and the Perspective of Prosodic Fluency.- Subjective Tests and Automatic Sentence Modality Recognition with Recordings of Speech Impaired Children.- The New Italian Audio and Video Emotional Database.- Spoken Dialogue in Virtual Worlds.