Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups world

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2011, held in M

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2007, held in Paris, France, September 2007.

In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recog

In this book the reader will find a collection of 31 papers presenting different facets of Human Computer Interaction, the result of research projects and exper