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Chapter
Emotion and Disposition Detection in Medical Machines: Chances and Challenges
Machines designed for medical applications beyond usual data acquisition and processing need to cooperate with and adapt to humans in order to fulfill their supportive tasks. Technically, medical machines are ...
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Article
Analysis of significant dialog events in realistic human–computer interaction
This paper addresses issues of automatically detecting significant dialog events (SDEs) in naturalistic HCI, and of deducing trait-specific conclusions relevant for the design of spoken dialog systems. We perf...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigating the Form-Function-Relation of the Discourse Particle “hm” in a Naturalistic Human-Computer Interaction
For a successful speech-controlled human-computer interaction (HCI) the pure textual information as well as individual skills, preferences, and affective states of the user have to be known. However, verbal hu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Discourse Particles and User Characteristics in Naturalistic Human-Computer Interaction
In human-human interaction (HHI) the behaviour of the speaker is amongst others characterised by semantic and prosodic cues. These short feedback signals minimally communicate certain dialogue functions such a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Language Modeling of Nonverbal Vocalizations in Spontaneous Speech
Nonverbal vocalizations are one of the characteristics of spontaneous speech distinguishing it from written text. These phenomena are sometimes regarded as a problem in language and acoustic modeling. However,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Zanzibar OpenIVR: An Open-Source Framework for Development of Spoken Dialog Systems
The maturity of standards and the availability of open source components for all levels of the MRCP stack provide us with new opportunities for the development of spoken dialog technology. In this paper a stan...
