Speakers employ acoustic cues (pitch accents) to indicate that a word is important, but may
also use visual cues (beat gestures, head nods, eyebrow movements) for this purpose. Even …

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of dialogue
systems that support robust and efficient human-machine interaction using spoken …

This paper describes two experiments on the role of audiovisual prosody for signalling and
detecting meta-cognitive information in question answering. The first study consists of an …

We describe two experiments on signaling and detecting uncertainty in audiovisual speech
by adults and children. In the first study, utterances from adult speakers and child speakers …

The majority of previous studies on vocal expression have been conducted on posed
expressions. In contrast, we utilized a large corpus of authentic affective speech recorded …

In accordance with the global trend, in The Netherlands approximately 45% of the
population is overweight. Existing studies show that patient self-management can reduce …

This article investigates whether newsreaders exploit their expressive style for signalling
different types of communicatively relevant information. The study reported upon here …

Recently, some studies have revealed that facial gestures can play an important role in
teasing out the meaning of interrogative sentence types in a particular language (Srinivasan …

This chapter takes into account the role of emotions in social interactions, both face-to-face
and video-mediated. Emotions are conceptualised as ongoing processes rooted in dynamic …

Miscommunication occurs frequently in any communicative interaction. Despite a long
history of studies of miscommunication across a range of different disciplines, the focus in …