Multimodal Human-Computer Communication: Systems, Techniques, and Experiments / Edition 1

by Harry Bunt, Robbert-Jan Beun, Tijn Borghuis

Overview

This book constitutes the strictly reviewed post-workshop documentation of the First International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1995.

The volume presents an introductory survey and carefully re vised and updated full versions of three invited contributions and 14 papers selected for inclusion in the book after intensive reviewing. Among the issues addressed are intelligent multimedia retrieval, cooperative conversation, agent system communication, multimodal maps, multimodal plan presentation, multimodal user interfaces, multimodal dialog, and various systems for multimodal HCI.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540643807
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/22/1998
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #1374
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Issues in multimodal human-computer communication.- Toward cooperative multimedia interaction.- Multimodal cooperation with the DenK system.- Synthesizing cooperative conversation.- Instructing animated agents: Viewing language in behavioral terms.- Modeling and processing of oral and tactile activities in the GEORAL system.- Multimodal maps: An agent-based approach.- Using cooperative agents to plan multimodal presentations.- Developing multimodal interfaces: A theoretical framework and guided propagation networks.- Cooperation between reactive 3D objects and a multimodal X Window kernel for CAD.- A multimedia interface for circuit board assembly.- Visual language parsing: If I had a hammer....- Anaphora in multimodal discourse.- Speakers' responses to requests for repetition in a multimedia language processing environment.- Object reference in task-oriented keyboard dialogues.- Referent identification requests in multi-modal dialogs.- Studies into full integration of language and action.- The role of multimodal communication in cooperation: The cases of air traffic control.