Multimodal Processing And Interaction

Authors: Kabir, Muhammad Ashad, Han, Jun, Colman, Alan
Demonstrates how users' social context information can be acquired from different online social networks and used to develop innovative smart mobile applications
Introduces a novel framework to address the key challenges in developing socially-aware applications
Presents two case studies that validate and evaluate the different functionalities of the framework and its underlying approach and platform

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, MLMI 2008, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2008. The 12 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented together with 5 papers of a special session on user requirements and evaluation of multimodal meeting browsers/assistants were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.

This book aims to explore and discuss theories and technologies for the development of socially competent and culture-aware embodied conversational agents for elderly care. To tackle the challenges in ageing societies, this book was written by experts who have a background in assistive technologies for elderly care, culture-aware computing, multimodal dialogue, social robotics and synthetic agents.