Title page -- Preface -- List of Sponsors -- International Advisory and Organizing Committee -- Contents -- Gestures and Nonverbal Behaviour -- Some Topics in Gesture Studies -- Gesture and Thought -- A Method for Studying the Time Alignment of Gestures and Prosody in American English: 'Hits' and Pitch Accents in Academic-Lecture-Style Speech -- What Pauses Can Tell Us About Speech and Gesture Partnership -- "Unseen Gestures" and the Speaker's Mind: An Analysis of Co-Verbal Gestures in Map-Task Activities -- A Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship Between Gestures and Prosody in Italian -- Multimodal Resources in Co-Constructing Topical Flow: Case of "Father's Foot" -- Nonverbal Communication as a Factor in Linguistic and Cultural Miscommunication -- The Integrative and Structuring Function of Speech in Face-to-Face Communication from the Perspective of Human-Centered Linguistics -- Nonverbal Speech -- How Speech Encodes Affect and Discourse Information -- Beats for Individual Timing Variation -- Age as a Disguise in a Voice Identification Task -- A Cross-Language Study of Acoustic and Prosodic Characteristics of Vocalic Hesitations -- Intonation, Accent and Personal Traits -- Prosodic Cues for Automatic Word Boundary Detection in ASR -- Non-Speech Activity Pause Detection in Noisy and Clean Speech Conditions -- On the Analysis of F0 Control Characteristics of Nonverbal Utterances and its Application to Communicative Prosody Generation -- Effectiveness of Short-Term Prosodic Features for Speaker Verification -- N-gram Distributions in Texts as Proxy for Textual Fingerprints -- An MPEG-7 Architecture with a Blind Signal Processing Based Front-End for Spoken Document Retrieval -- Overcomplete Blind Separation of Speech Sources in the Post Nonlinear Case Through Extended Gaussianization -- Facial Expressions.

Visual Pragmemes and Pragmaphrasems in English, Croatian, and Polish Languages -- Eye Localization: A Survey -- Face Recognition: An Introductory Overview -- Detection of Faces and Recognition of Facial Expressions -- Face Recognition Experiments on the AR Database -- Conversational Agents -- From Research to Practice: The Technology, Psychology, and Pedagogy of Embodied Conversational Agents -- Virtual Talking Heads and Ambiant Face-to-Face Communication -- Analyzing and Modelling Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication for Talking Animated Interface Agents -- Towards a Socially and Emotionally Attuned Humanoid Agent -- Nonverbal and Bodily Interaction in Ambient Entertainment -- A POMDP Approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling -- Author Index.