Multimodal analyses enabling artificial agents in human-machine interaction : second International Workshop, MA3HMI 2014, held in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014. The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in two sections: human-machine interaction and dialogs and speech recognition. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Annotating the TCD D-ANS Corpus – A Multimodal Multimedia Monolingual Biometric Corpus of Spoken Social Interaction....Pages 3-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Steps Towards More Natural Human-Machine Interaction via Audio-Visual Word Prominence Detection....Pages 15-24 Improving Robustness Against Environmental Sounds for Directing Attention of Social Robots....Pages 25-34 On Annotation and Evaluation of Multi-modal Corpora in Affective Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 35-44 Modelling User Experience in Human-Robot Interactions....Pages 45-56 Disposition Recognition from Spontaneous Speech Towards a Combination with Co-speech Gestures....Pages 57-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 ASR Independent Hybrid Recurrent Neural Network Based Error Correction for Dialog System Applications....Pages 69-77 Acquisition and Use of Long-Term Memory for Personalized Dialog Systems....Pages 78-87 An Automatic Shout Detection System Using Speech Production Features....Pages 88-98 Collecting Data for Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Dialectal Arabic Using Games with a Purpose....Pages 99-108 Back Matter....Pages 109-109