Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantly advanced the state-of-the-
art in the automated analysis and classification of speech and music. It defines several …

Listening is now regarded by researchers and practitioners as a highly active skill involving
prediction, inference, reflection, constructive recall, and often direct interaction with …

In this paper, we present a study where a robot instructs a human on how to draw a route on
a map. The human and robot are seated face-to-face with the map placed on the table …

Overlapping talk occurs frequently in multi-party conversations, and is a domain in which
speakers may pursue various communicative goals. The current study focuses on turn …

In human dialogue, listener feedback is a pervasive phenomenon that serves important
functions in the coordination of the conversation, both in regulating its flow, as well as in …

Natural human interaction is highly dynamic and responsive: interlocutors produce
utterances incrementally, smoothly switch speaking turns with virtually no delay, make use of …

Gestures accompany our speech in ways that punctuate, augment, substitute for, and even
contradict verbal information. Such co-speech gestures draw listeners' attention to specific …

We present a multimodal coaching system that supports online motor skill learning. In this
domain, closed-loop interaction between the movements of the user and the action …

Speakers use overlapping speech to achieve a range of interactional moves. Competitive
overlaps, or interruptions, challenge an interlocutor's control of the conversational floor …