Academic publications

Albrecht, I., M. Schröder, J. Haber & H.-P. Seidel. (to appear). Mixed feelings: Expression of non-basic emotions in a muscle-based talking head.  to appear in: Special issue of Journal of Virtual Reality on "Language, Speech & Gesture".

André, E., L. Dybkjær, W. Minker and P. Heisterkamp (eds.): Affective Dialogue Systems, 2004, Proceedings Springer 2004

André, E., M. Rehm, W. Minker, D. Bühler: Endowing Spoken Language Dialogue Systems with Emotional Intelligence. ADS 2004: 178-187, Springer 2004.

Avila-García, O. and Cañamero, L., 2004. Using Hormonal Feedback to Modulate Action Selection in a Competitive Scenario. In S. Schaal, A.J. Ijspeert, A. Billard, S. Vijayakumar, J. Hallam and J.-A. Meyer (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 8: Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’04), pp. 243-252. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Avila-García, O. and Cañamero, L. 2005. Hormonal Modulation of Perception in Motivation-Based Action Selection Architectures. In L. Cañamero and D. Evans (Eds.), Procs. Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action, Workshop of the AISB’05 Convention, University of Hertfordshire, UK, April 14-15, 2005

Aylett, R.S (2004) Agents and affect: why embodied agents need affective systems Invited paper, 3rd Hellenic Conference on AI, Samos, May 2004 Springer Verlag LNAI 3025 pp496-504

Balomenos, T., A.Raouzaiou, S.Ioannou, A.Drosopoulos, K.Karpouzis, and S.Kollias, “Emotion Analysis In Man-Machine Interaction Systems”, Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI04), Switzerland, June 2004.

Batliner, A., C. Hacker, S. Steidl, E. Nöth, S. D'Arcy, M. Russell, M. Wong, "You stupid tin box" -  children interacting with the AIBO robot: A cross-linguistic emotional speech corpus". In Proc. LREC 2004, Lisbon, 2004.

Batliner, A., C. Hacker, S. Steidl, E. Nöth, J. Haas, " From Emotion to Interaction: Lessons from Real Human-Machine-Dialogues." In E. André, L. Dybkiaer, W. Minker, P. Heisterkamp (eds.) "Affective Dialogue Systems". Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004

Beskow J., L. Cerrato, P. Cosi, E. Costantini, F. Pianesi, M. Nordstrand, M. Orete, G. Svanfeldt (2004) ‘Preliminary Cross-cultural Evaluation of Expressiveness in Synthetic Faces’. In E. Andre’, L. Dybkiaer, W. Minker, P. Heisterkamp (eds.) Affective Dialogue Systems,  Springer Verlag.

Bevacqua, E., M. Mancini, C. Pelachaud, ``Speaking with Emotions'', AISB 2004 Convention: Motion, Emotion and Cognition, Leeds, Angleterre, March-Avril 2004.

Bosma, W. and E. André. Exploiting emotions to disambiguate dialogue acts. Intelligent User Interfaces pp. 85-92, Funchal, Portugal, 2004.

Camurri, A., G. De Poli, A. Friberg, M. Leman, G. Volpe, “The MEGA project: analysis and synthesis of multisensory expressive gesture in performing art applications”, Journal of New Music Research, 34(1), Taylor & Francis, 2005, in press.

Camurri, A., B. Mazzarino, G. Volpe, “Expressive gestural control of sound and visual output in multimodal interactive systems”, in Proceedings International Conference Sound and Music Computing 2004, Paris, France, October 2004.

Cañamero, L. (forthcoming 2005). Designing Emotional Artifacts for Social Interaction: Challenges and Perspectives. In L. Cañamero, R. Aylett (Eds.), Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Co., Advances in Consciousness Research Series

Cañamero, L. and R. Aylett (eds.). 2005. Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Advances in Consciousness Research Series (forthcoming 2005).

Cañamero, L. and D. Evans (eds.), forthcoming 2005. Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action. Papers from the AISB’05 Symposium. SSAISB Press

Cañamero, L. and Gaussier, P. (forthcoming 2004). Emotion Understanding: Robots As Tools and Models. To appear in J. Nadel and D. Muir (Eds.), Emotional Development: Recent research advances, Oxford University Press (in press).

Cavalluzzi, A., V Carofiglio and F de Rosis: Affective Advice-Giving Dialogs. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on "Affective Dialogue Systems" (ADS04) Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 2004

Chateau, N., Maffiolo, V. & Blouin, C. (2004). Analysis of emotional speech in voice mail messages: The influence of speakers' gender. Proceedings of ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea.

Clavel, C., I. Vasilescu, L. Devillers, T. Ehrette, ``Fiction database for emotion detection in abnormal situations'', ICLP, Coree, novembre 2004.

Constantini E., F. Pianesi, M. Prete. ‘Recognising Emotions in Human and Synthetic Faces: the Role of the Upper and Lower Parts of the Face’. In Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces IUI’05. San Diego, CA. January 2005.

Cos-Aguilera, I., Cañamero, L., and Hayes, G. 2005. Motivation-Driven Learning of Action Affordances. In L. Cañamero and D. Evans (Eds.), Procs. Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action, Workshop of the AISB’05 Convention, University of Hertfordshire, UK, April 14-15, 2005.

Cos-Aguilera, I., Hayes, G., and Cañamero, L. 2004. Using SOFM to Learn Object Affordances. In Proc. of the 5th Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF'04), Girona, Catalonia, Spain. March, 2004.
Costantini E., F Pianesi P. Cosi (2004) ‘Evaluation of Synthetic Faces: Human Recognition of Emotional Facial Displays’. In E. Andre’, L. Dybkiaer, W. Minker, P. Heisterkamp (eds.) Affective Dialogue Systems, Springer Verlag.

Cowie, R. & M. Schröder (to appear). Piecing together the emotion jigsaw.  to appear in: MLMI. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Delgado, C & Aylett,R.S (2004) Emotion and Action Selection: Regulating the Collective Behaviour of Agents in Virtual Environments The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS04)

Devillers, L., I. Vasilescu: ``Reliability of Lexical and Prosodic cues in two real-life spoken dialog corpora'', LREC, Lisbonne, mai 2004.

Devillers, L., I. Vasilescu, L.Vidrascu: ``Anger versus Fear detection in recorded conversations'', Speech Prosody, Japon, mars 2004.

Dittrich W (2004) A wolf in sheep's cloth. In R.Aylett and l.Canamero (eds.) Animating expressive characters for social interaction (Advances in Consciousness Series). John Benjamins Publishing

Döring, S. Gründe und Gefühle: Rationale Motivation durch emotionale Vernunft. Habilitationsschrift, Philosophie, Duisburg-Essen University, 2004, 430 pages.

Döring, S. Können Gefühle Gründe sein?, in Rationale Motivation, ed. by Erich Ammereller und Wilhelm Vossenkuhl, Paderborn: mentis, 2004, pages 184-206

Döring, S. Die Renaissance des Gefühls in der Gegenwartsphilosophie; research report to appear in Information Philosophie, Dec 2004.

Döring, S. Warum brauchen wir eine Philosophie der Gefühle?, to appear in Emotionen und Sozialtheorie, ed. by Rainer Schützeichel, Frankfurt/New York: Campus, Dec 2004.

Egges, A., S. Kshirsagar, N. Magnenat-Thalmann. "Generic Personality and Emotion Simulation for Conversational Agents", Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 15(1): pp. 1-13, January 2004

Egges, A., T. Molet, N. Magnenat Thalmann. "Personalised Real-time Idle Motion Synthesis", Pacific Graphics 2004, Seoul, Korea, 2004

Egges, A., R. Visser, N. Magnenat-Thalmann. Example-Based Idle Motion Synthesis in a Real-Time Application. CAPTECH Workshop 2004, Zermatt, Switzerland

Goldie, P. On Personality, London: Routledge, 2004.

Goldie, P. ‘Emotion, Feeling, and Knowledge of the world’, in Thinking about Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions, R. Solomon (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 91-106.

Goldie, P. ‘Emotion, Reason, and Virtue’, in Emotion, Evolution, and Rationality, D. Evans and P. Cruse (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pages 249-67.

Goldie, P. ‘Narrative, emotion, and understanding’, in Narrative Research in Health and Illness, eds. B. Hurwitz, T. Greenhalgh and V. Skultans, London: Blackwell, BMJ Books, 2004, pages 156-67.

Goldie, P. ‘What People Will Do: Personality and Prediction’, Richmond Journal of Philosophy 7, 2004, pages 11-18.

Goldie, P. ‘The Life of the Mind: Commentary on “Emotions in Everyday Life”’, Social Science Information 43, 2004, pages 591-8.

Goldie, P. ‘Romantic love’ for The Philosophers’ Journal, forthcoming December 2004.

Goldie, P. Review of Recreative Minds, G. Currie and I. Ravenscroft, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, Philosophy, 2004.

Grandjean, D., Sander, D, Pourtois, G., Schwartz, S., Seghier, M.L., Scherer, K.R., & Vuilleumier, P. (in revision). The voice of Wrath: Brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech. Nature Neuroscience.

Gratch, J., S. Marsella, A. Egges, A. Eliens, K. Isbister, A. Paiva, T. Rist and P. ten Hagen, ``Design criteria, techniques and case studies for creating and evaluating interactive experiences with virtual humans (extended abstract), AAMAS Workshop on Embodied Conversational Agents: Balanced Perception and Action, New York, 2004.

Guerini, M., O. Stock and M. Zancanaro ‘Persuasive Strategies and Rhetorical Relation Selection’  Proc. of the ECAI 2004 Workshop on Natural Argumentation, Valencia, 2004.

Hall, L., S. Woods, K. Dautenhahn, D. Sobral, A. Paiva, D. Wolke, L. Newall: ``Designing Empathic Agents: Adults Versus Kids." Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'2004), Springer, 2004.

Hartmann, B., C. Pelachaud, M.Mancini, "Expressivity Control for ECA Behavior Synthesis", IUT Montreuil, University of Paris 8, Poster and demo presented at Symposium on Computer Animation, Grenoble, August 2004

Hartmann, B., M.Mancini, C. Pelachaud, "Towards Affective Agent Action: Modelling Expressive ECA Gestures", Worshop on Affective Interactions at IUI 2005, San Diego, CA, January 2005

Herbelin, B., P. Benzaki, F. Riquier, O. Renault, and D. Thalmann, Using physiological measures for emotional assessment: a computer-aided tool for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy , Proc. ICDVRAT 2004, 5th Intl Conf on Disability, Virtual Reality, pages 307-314, 2004

Höök, K (2004) Active co-construction of meaningful experiences: but what is the designers’ role?, Keynote presentation of the NordiCHI conference, Tampere, October 2004, ACM Press.

Hudlicka, E. and L. Cañamero (eds.), 2004. Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations. Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium. Technical Report SS-04-02. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Ibanez, J, Delgado, C, Aylett, R.S. & Ruiz, R. (2004) Don't you escape. I'll tell you my story. Proceedings, MICAI 2004, Mexico City, April 2004 Springer Verlag LNAI 2972 ISBN 3540214593 pp49-58

Ibanez, J. & Aylett, R.S (2004) Welcome to MY virtual place. . Eds L Sheremetov & M Alvarado, Proceedings, Workshops on Intelligent Computing, MICAI 2004, Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo & Sociedad Mexicana de Intelligencia Artificial, AC. ISBN 968-489-024-9 pp316-323

Ioannou, S., A. Raouzaiou, K. Karpouzis and S. Kollias, “Adaptation of Facial Feature Extraction and Rule Generation in Emotion-Analysis Systems”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2004), Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.

Ioannou, S., A. Raouzaiou, K. Karpouzis, M. Pertselakis, N. Tsapatsoulis, S.Kollias, “Adaptive Rule-Based Facial Expression Recognition”, G. Vouros, T. Panayiotopoulos (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3025, Springer-Verlag, pp. 466 - 475, 2004.

Ioannou, S., A. Raouzaiou, K. Karpouzis, M. Pertselakis, N. Tsapatsoulis, S.Kollias, “Adaptive Rule-Based Facial Expression Recognition”, G. Vouros, T. Panayiotopoulos (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3025, Springer-Verlag, pp. 466 - 475, 2004.

Karpouzis, K., A. Raouzaiou, A. Drosopoulos, S. Ioannou, T. Balomenos, N. Tsapatsoulis and S. Kollias, “Facial expression and gesture analysis for emotionally-rich man-machine interaction”, in N. Sarris, M. Strintzis, (eds.), 3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques, Idea Group Publ., 2004.

Kim, J., Nikolaus Bee, Johannes Wagner, Elisabeth André: Emote toWin: Affective Interactions with a Computer Game Agent. GI Jahrestagung (1) 2004: 159-164.

Kim, S. and E. André. Composing Affective Music with a Generate and Sense Approach. FLAIRS 2004, Miami, Florida.

Kim, S. and E. André. A generate and sense approach to automated music composition. Intelligent User Interfaces, pp. 268-270, Funchal, Portugal, 2004.

Kim, S. and E. André. A Generate-And-Sense Approach to Automated Music Composition. In: International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, to appear.

Kramer, R., & Parkinson, B. (in press). Generalisation of mere exposure effects from three-quarter view and profile faces, Social Cognition.

Krenn B., Pirker H.: Defining the Gesticon: Language and Gesture Coordination for Interacting Embodied Agents, in Proceedings of the AISB-2004 Symposium on Language, Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters, Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 30.-31.3., University of Leeds, UK, 2004.

Krenn B., Neumayr B., Gstrein E., Grice M. (2004) Life-Like Agents for the Internet: A Cross-Cultural Case Study. in Payr S., Trappl R. (eds.), Agent Culture, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey, London.

Krenn B., Neumayr B., Schmotzer C., Grice M. (2004) What can we learn from users of avatars in net environments? in Ruttkay Z., Pelachaud C. (eds.), From Brows to Trust Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Louchart, S & Aylett, R.S. (2004) The Emergent Narrative TheoreticalInvestigation Proceedings, NILE 04, Edinburgh, August 2004

Lowe, R., Cañamero, L., Nehaniv, C., and Polani, D. 2004. Strategies in the Evolution of Affect-Related Displays and Recognition. In H. Schaub, F. Detje, and U. Brüggemann (Eds.), The Logic of Artificial Life: Abstracting And Synthesizing The Principles Of Living Systems. Proc. Sixth German Workshop on Artificial Life (GWAL-6). Bamberg, Germany, April 12-14, 2004. (forthcoming IOS Press book, 2005).

Lowe, R., Cañamero, L., Nehaniv, C., and Polani, D. 2004. The Evolution of Affect-Related Displays, Recognition and Related Strategies. In J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami and R.A. Watson (Eds.), ALIFE IX: Proc. 9th Intl. Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 176-181. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Maya, V., M. Lamolle, C. Pelachaud, ``Influences and Embodied Conversational Agents: Tools for automatic processing of effects'', poster at Third International Joint Conference  on Autonomous Agents \& Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'04, New-York, USA, Juillet 2004.

Maya, V., M. Lamolle, C. Pelachaud, ``Embodied Conversational Agent and Influences'', 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'04, Valencia, Spain, August 2004.

Maya, V., M. Lamolle, C. Pelachaud, ``Influenceable Embodied Conversational Agent'', AISB 2004 Convention: Motion, Emotion and Cognition, Leeds, Angleterre, March-Avril 2004.

Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C. (2004).  Voice quality and f0 in prosody: towards a holistic account.  Proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Speech Prosody, Nara, Japan, pp. 189-196.

Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C. (2004).  Decomposing linguistic and affective components of phonatory quality. Proceedings of the 8^nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, Vol. 2, pp. 901-904.

Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C. (2004).  On the relationship between phonatory quality and affect.  Festschrift in honour of John Laver, Lawrence Erlbaum, forthcoming.

Paiva, A., J. Dias., D. Sobral, R. Aylett, ``Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents" Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, AAMAS'2004, ACM Press, 2004.

Paiva, A., J. Dias, D. Sobral S. Woods and L. Hall, ``Building Empathic Lifelike Characters: the proximity factor", in AAMAS workshop on Empathic Agents, New York, 2004.

Parkinson, B., Fischer, A., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2005). Emotion in social relations: Cultural, group, and interpersonal processes. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.

Parkinson, B. (2004). Auditing emotions: What should we count? Social Science Information, 43, 633-645

Parkinson, B. (2004). Unpicking reasonable emotions. In D. Evans & P. Cruse (Eds.), Emotion, evolution, and rationality (pp.107-129). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pelachaud, C., V. Maya, M. Lamolle, "Representation of Expressivity for Embodied Conversational Agents", workshop on Balanced Perception and Action in ECAs, at AAMAS'04, New-York, August, 2004.

Pitt, J. Digital blush: towards shame and embarrassment in multi-agent information trading applications. Cognition, Technology & Work, vol.6:1, pp23-36, 2004.

Rank S., Petta P.: Motivating Dramatic Interactions, AISB'05 Symposium "Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action", April 14-15, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 2005.

Rank S., Petta P., Trappl R.: Features of Emotional Planning in Software Agents, ISSEK04 Workshop on Intelligent Agents: Decision-Support and Planning, 30.9.-2.10.2004, CISM, Udine, Italy, 2004.

Raouzaiou, A., S. Ioannou, G. Akrivas, K. Karpouzis and S. Kollias, “Adaptation of Expression Analysis Based on Evaluation Principles”, Fourth European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies and their implementation on Smart Adaptive Systems (Eunite 2004), Aachen, Germany, June 2004.

Raouzaiou, A., K. Karpouzis and S. Kollias, “Online Gaming and Emotion Representation”, N. Garcia, J. Martinez, L. Salgado (eds.), Visual Content Processing and Representation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2849, pp. 298 - 305, 2004.

Raouzaiou, A., K. Karpouzis, S. Kollias, “Emotion Synthesis in the MPEG-4 Framework”, IEEE International workshop on multimedia signal processing (MMSP), Siena, Italy, September 2004.

van Reekum, C., Banse, R., Johnstone, T., Etter, A., Wehrle, T., & Scherer, K. R. (2004). Psychophysiological responses to appraisal responses in a computer game. Cognition and Emotion, 18(5), 663-688.

Rehm, M. and E. André. Informing the Design of Embodied Conversational Agents by Analysing Multimodal Politeness Behaviours in Human-Human Communication. To appear at: AISB 2005.

de Rosis, F., A Cavalluzzi, I Mazzotta and N Novielli: Empathy induction in conversations with Embodied Agents. AISB'04 Workshop on "Empathic interaction with synthetic characters".

Sander, D. & Scherer, K. R. (in press). Amalgams and the power of analytical chemistry: Affective science needs to decompose the appraisal-emotion interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (Commentary on Lewis'"Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling").

Scherer, K.R., Sangsue, J. & Sander, D. (in press). De la psychologie à la psychopathologie des émotions. In M. Van der Linden & G. Ceschi (Eds.) Traité de Psychopathologie Cognitive. Marseille : Solal.

Scherer, K. R. (2004). Feelings integrate the central representation of appraisal-driven response organization in emotion. In A. S. R. Manstead, N. H. Frijda, & A. H. Fischer (Eds.). Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium (pp. 136-157). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Scherer, K. R. (2004). Ways to study the nature and frequency of our daily emotions: Reply to the commentaries on "Emotions in everyday life". Social Science Information, 43(4), 667-689.

Scherer, K. R. (in press). Which emotions can be induced by music? What are the underlying mechanisms? And how can we measure them? Journal of New Music Research, 33(3), xx-xx.

Scherer, K. R. (in press). Unconscious processes in emotion: The bulk of the iceberg. In P. Niedenthal, L. Feldman-Barrett, & P. Winkielman (Eds.), The unconscious in emotion. New York: Guilford.

Scherer, K. R., & Bänziger, T. (2004). Emotional expression in prosody: a review and an agenda for future research. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, 359-366.

Scherer, K. R., Wranik, T., Sangsue, J., Tran, V., & Scherer, U. (2004). Emotions in everyday life: Probability of occurrence, risk factors, appraisal and reaction pattern. Social Science Information, 43(4), 499-570.

Scherer, K. R., Zentner, M. R., & Stern, D. (2004). Beyond Surprise: The Puzzle of Infants' Expressive Reactions to Expectancy Violation. Emotion, 4.

Schröder, M. & S. Breuer (2004). XML Representation Languages as a Way of Interconnecting TTS Modules. Proc. ICSLP'04 Jeju, Korea.

Schröder, M. (2004). Speech and Emotion Research: An overview of research frameworks and a dimensional approach to emotional speech synthesis. PhD thesis, PHONUS 7, Research Report of the Institute of Phonetics, Saarland University.

Schröder, M. (2004). Dimensional emotion representation as a basis for speech synthesis with non-extreme emotions. Proc. Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems Kloster Irsee, Germany, pp. 209-220.

de Sevin, E. and D. Thalmann, The complexity of testing a motivational model of action selection for virtual humans. In Computer Graphics International (CGI), IEEE Computer Society Press, June 2004

Stock, O. and C. Strapparava  ‘The Act of Creating Humorous Acronyms’ to appear on Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Stock, O., M. Zancanaro, E. Not.  ‘Intelligent Interactive Information Presentation  for Cultural Tourism’ in O. Stock, M. Zancanaro (eds.)  Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004.

Sundström, P. (to appear). Exploring the affective loop. Licentiate thesis, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

Steidl, S., M. Levit, A. Batliner, E. Nöth, H Niemann, "Of all Things the Measure is Man". Automatic Classification of Emotions and Inter-labeller Consistency. To appear in Proc. ICASSP 2005.

Steidl, S., C. Hacker, C. Ruff, A. Batliner, E. Nöth, J. Haas, " Looking at the Last Two Turns, I'd Say This Dialogue is Doomed - Measuring Dialogue Success". In Proc. TSD 2004, pages 629-636, Brno, Czech Republic, September 2004.

Trouvain, J. & M. Schröder (2004). How (Not) to Add Laughter to Synthetic Speech Proc. Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems Kloster Irsee, Germany, pp. 229-232.

Tsechpenakis, G., K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis and S. Kollias, “A Snake Model for Object Tracking in Natural Sequences”, Elsevier, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Volume 19, Issue 3, pp. 219-238, March 2004.

Tsechpenakis, G., N. Tsapatsoulis and S. Kollias, “Probabilistic Boundary-Based Contour Tracking with Snakes in Natural Cluttered Video Sequences”, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 469-498, 2004

Tsechpenakis, G., K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, S. Kollias, “Rule-driven Object Tracking in Clutter and Partial Occlusion with Model-based Snakes”, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, no. 6, pp. 841-860, Jun 2004.

Vala, M., A. Paiva & R. Prada: ``Tangible Influence: Towards a New Interaction Paradigm for Computer Games". ICEC- International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Springer, 2004.

Vala, M., A. Paiva & Rui Prada ``From Motion Control to Emotion Influence: Controlling Autonomous in a Computer Game", Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, AAMAS'2004, ACM Press, 2004.

Valitutti, A., C. Strapparava, O. Stock ‘Developing Affective Lexical Resources’ Psychnology, (ISSN 1720-7525) Vol. 2, n.1, pp 61-83, 2004

Vasalou, A. and J. Pitt. DigitalBlush: Towards a self-conscious community, AISB 2005 Symposium on Conversational Informatics, 2005 (to appear).

Wallace, M., A. Raouzaiou, N.Tsapatsoulis, S. Kollias, “Facial Expression Classification Based on MPEG-4 FAPs: The Use of Evidence and Prior Knowledge for Uncertainty Removal”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.

Academic events (co-)organised by HUMAINE partners

AISB 2004 Symposia: Workshop on Language Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters (USAL)

British HCI 2004: Workshop on Empathic Interfaces (USAL)

Dagstuhl Seminar on Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 15th-19th, 2004 (UA).

AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on "Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations" Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, March 22-24, 2004. (UH)

Workshop "Multimodal Corpora: Models Of Human Behaviour For The Specification And Evaluation Of Multimodal Input And Output Interfaces" In Association with the 4th International Conference On Language Resources And Evaluation (LREC2004), Centro Cultural de Belem, LISBON, Portugal, 25th May 2004.

Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 14th-16th, 2004  (UA)

Workshop on Technologies for Interactive Cognitive and Communicative Agents. ITC-irst, Povo, Trento June 23-25, 2004. (ITC-irst)

Third International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation (IWVR 2004), Lausanne. (EPFL)

Workshop on "Empathic Agents" at the Third International Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'04). Columbia University, New York City July 19-23, 2004. (INESC-ID, USAL)

Workshop on Balanced Perception and Action in ECAs, at the Third International Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'04). Columbia University, New York City July 19-23, 2004. (Paris8)

"Sociality with Machines", Invitation-based workshop hosted at OFAI 19+20 November, 2004 (OFAI)

IUI 2005 Workshop on "Affective Interactions:  the Computer in the Affective Loop" San Diego, US. 9-12 January 2005. (INESC-ID)

Workshop at the ACM SIGCHI Computer-Human Conference (CHI 2005) to be held in Portland, Oregon, USA in April 2005: "Evaluating Affective Interfaces­--Innovative Approaches", based on the work in WP9. (KTH)

Parallel session at CHI 2005 (Imperial).

2005 AISB Convention “Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents”, University of Hertforsdhire, Hatfield, UK, April 12-15, 2005. (UH)

AISB’05 Symposium Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action. University of Hertforsdhire, Hatfield, UK, April 14-15, 2005. (UH)

International Conference on Personality and Emotion. Geneva Affective Science Week. Geneva, Switzerland, June 15-19, 2005.

Special session introducing HUMAINE at the meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE), Bari, Italy, July 11-15, 2005.

Special session on "Children's speech" at Interspeech 2005 (Lisbon), including children's emotional speech (interaction with the AIBO robot). (Erlangen)

Press reports

QUB News: "HUMAINE" Research Project, R. Cowie, January 2004

The Observer, April 11, 2004 (Robin McKie): Machine rage is dead ... long live emotional computing

Press release by DFKI, at the occasion of the first plenary meeting, March 1 2004. "HUMAINE - HUman-MAchine Interaction Network on Emotions", on Informationsdienst Wissenschaft.

Press release by QUB, to local media in Northern Ireland, March 2004: "Queen's team leads European drive for emotion-sensitive computing."

BBC Northern Ireland: Search for 'human computer', March 2004.

4 NI: Project aims to make computers 'emotional', March 2004.

Hungarian PC Forum: Európai tudósok egy "emberibb" számítógépet fejlesztenek, March 2004.

Slovenian AAUnique: Iskanje "èloveškega raèunalnika", March 2004.

X tribe teens: Emotional Computing, May 2004.

Harddisk: Min computer forstår mig ikke... popular-science program on danish radio (Jan Skøt). Based on an interview with R. Cowie. Language: Danish with original English citations from R. Cowie. Can be heard online.

The Psychologist: Computed... with feeling. R. Cowie, June 2004.

Computerzeitung 29/12th July 2004: Avatare lügen wie gedruckt, p. 2.

c't 2004, vol. 18 (Dorothee Wiegand): Gemischte Gefühle. Computer lernen, einfühlsamer zu reagieren. (Mixed feelings. Computers learning to react with empathy). pp. 88-93. August 2004.

MercadoIndustrial: ¿Ordenadores capaces de sentir?, September 2004.

Britain Today: Wanted: Computers that behave like us. R. Cowie, September-October 2004.

Norwegian Teknisk Ukeblad: Den tenker for deg, October 2004

20th anniversary of OFAI: presentation of Humaine to representatives of Austrian Federal Ministries and national media (Austrian Press Agency APA), November 2004.

Rapport (Swedish national TV news): Petra Sundström and Anna Ståhl, both PhD-students in HUMAINE, discuss their affective interactive application named eMoto. 11 December 2004.

AISB Quarterly, report on HUMAINE (L. Canamero, December 2004)

Newsletter of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire: Report on HUMAINE, L. Canamero.

Italian radio interview: O. Stock, ITC-irst, 2004.

hobsons Postgrads: A meaningful relationship with your laptop could be closer than you think. 2004.

Talks

E. Andre. Interaktionsbeziehungen zwischen menschlichen und synthetischen Konversationspartnern in gemischten Realitäten. Workshop zu den psychologischen Implikationen des Ubiquitous Computing, Universität Stuttgart, 28.10.2004

E. Andre. Enhancing Embodied Conversational Agents with Social Intelligence. Invited Evening Lecture at ESSLLI 2004, Nancy

E. Andre. IT-Trends aus Politik und Wirtschaft. Neues zu Mensch-Maschine. Systems 2004, Munich.

E. Andre. Overview talk at Workshop on Affective and Emotional Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction: Emphasis on Game-Based and Innovative Learning Approaches, September 23 - 25, 2004, Carinthia, Austria

E. Andre. Enhancing Embodied Conversational Agents by Multimodal Behaviours of Politeness. Vienna Workshop 2004 - Dimensions of Sociality: Shaping Relationships with Machines, November 2004.

R. Aylett: Agents and Affect Invited talk, Hellenic AI Conference, May 2004

R. Aylett: Agents and Affect Invited talk, Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents, MICAI, April 2004

R. Aylett: Presentation on Interactive Narrative, Zhejiang University, China, June 2004

R. Aylett: Presentation on Emergent Narrative, La Villette Numerique, Paris, September 2004

R. Aylett: Seminar at Edinburgh Uni Jan 30

R. Aylett: Seminar at Sheffield May 11

R. Aylett: Seminar at Exeter Uni May 13

A. Batliner: Invited talk "Automatic classification of emotional states: purpose, possibilities, prospects". Slovenian Language Technologies Society, Information Society - IS 2004 Fourth Language Technologies Conference, October 13 - 14, 2004, Ljubljana. 13.11.2004

A. Camurri and G. Volpe: Seminar on "Communicating Expressiveness and Affect in Multimodal Interactive Systems for Performing Arts and Cultural Applications", Geneva, January 27th, 2004.

L. Cañamero: “Dimensions of Sociality: What Can We Learn from “Emotional” Robots?”, Workshop Dimensions of Sociality: Shaping Relationships with Machines. ÖFAI, Vienna, Austria, November 19-20, 2004.

L. Cañamero: “Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action: An Embodied AI Perspective”, Arts and AI seminar of the Department of Medical Cybernetics, University of Vienna and ÖFAI, Vienna, Austria, November 18, 2004.

L. Cañamero: “Robots as Tools and Models for Emotion Research”, ESF Workshop Social Communication and the Face, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, University of Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2004.

L. Cañamero: “The Future of Affective Robots”, NESTA Futurelab Adventure Fund Workshop, The Future of Affective Technology. NESTA Futurelab, Bristol, UK, July 21, 2004.

R. Cowie: Invited talk "Piecing together the emotion jigsaw", at  University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, May 2004.

R. Cowie: Invited talk "Piecing together the emotion jigsaw", at MLMI-04, Martigny, Switzerland, June 2004.

R. Cowie: Invited talk "Laying foundations for emotion-oriented computing", University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics Colloquium, October 2004.

R. Cowie: Invited talk "HUMAINE: towards a sound foundation for emotion-oriented computing", KTH Stockholm, Sweden, December 2004.

W. Dittrich: "Emotions make a difference or how we perceive social interactions". Seminar at School of Computer Science. University of Norwich. May 2004

S. Döring: Warum brauchen wir eine Philosophie der Gefühle?, at the symposium Rationalität in Ethik und Politik, for the 50th birthday of Professor Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin, Monacensia-Bibliothek in the Hildebrandthaus, Munich, November 27, 2004.

S. Döring: Emotionen und die Grenzen des Konsequentialismus, at Regensburg University, July 6, 2004.

S. Döring: Epistemische versus strategische Moralbegründung durch Emotionen, at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, September 2004.

S. Döring: Epistemische versus strategische Moralbegründung durch Emotionen, at Osnabrück University, Cognitive Science Colloquium, January 28, 2004.

C. Hacker: Haben Kinder Töne? Ohm-Gymnasium, Erlangen, 28. 7. 2004

K. Höök: Keynote presentation of the NordiCHI conference, Tampere, October 2004: "Active co-construction of meaningful experiences: but what is the designers’ role?".

K. Höök: Invited seminar on affective presence at Intel in Portland, Oregon, January 2004.

K. Höök: presentation on affective interaction and its potential for the mobile industry at Sony Ericsson in Lund, Sweden, May 2004.

K. Höök: presentation “A user-centred perspective on the design of affective interaction involving both body and mind” in an invited session on European HCI Research at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2004) conference in Vienna, April 2004.

S. Kaiser: Invited talk on Facial expressions as indicators of "functional" and "dysfunctional" emotional processes, at the Centre for the Study of Emotion, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, March 3-5, 2004.

JC Martin: Presentation of the ECA related activities of LIMSI at the national working group on Embodied Conversational Agents, 3 March 2004.

JC Martin:Invited talk "Evaluations of Cooperation between Modalities in ECAs" at the Dagstuhl-Seminar on Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents, 14-19 March 2004

JC Martin: Presentation of the LIMSI/HUMAINE activities at the THALES company, 23rd November 2004.

A. Ní Chasaide: Invited talk at the Special Session on Prosody and Voice Quality. Japan, Speech Prosody 2004.

A. Ní Chasaide: Invited talk at the Special Session on Speech and Affect, Korea, INTERSPEECH, October 2004.

A. Ní Chasaide and Gobl, C.: Invited talk "Voice quality in spoken communication: the linguistic and affective dimensions." at Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, scheduled for May 2005.

A. Ní Chasaide: HUMAINE presentation at a special poster session at the Printing House on Friday 10th Dec, which celebrates Centenary of Women at Trinity College Dublin.

E. Nöth: Invited talk "Multi-modal Affective User Behavior in Human-Machine-Communication", ADS 2004, Kloster Irsee, 15. 6. 2004

E. Nöth: Invited talk "Benutzerwahrnehmung", DFG-Symposium "Perspektiven kognitiver technischer Systeme", Aachen, 15.9.2004

E. Nöth: Automatische Sprach- und Emotionsverarbeitung am Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung, BMW, München, 11.10.2004

C. Pelachaud, Participation at the NSF-Workshop on Accelerating Progress in Perceptive Animated Agents and Virtual Humans, Del Mar California, San Diego, 9-10, April 2004.

P. Petta: Invited talk at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeong, Korea: "Contributions of Emotions research to the Design of Situated Social Cognisers", International Workshop on Ubiquitous Robot, 4.11.2004

J. Pitt: Group meetings on Affective Computing at the National Informatics Institute, Fujitsu Laboratories, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Kyushu University, and Ristex, Japan, 2004.

M. Rehm: Invited talk at the NII (National Institute of Informatics) in Tokyo, 29th September 2004

F. de Rosis: Workshop on "Dimensions of Sociality: shaping relationships with machines", Vienna, November 2004, organised by Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
and The Institute for the Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna, Austria .

K. Scherer: Keynote speech "What does emotional expression express? And what does emotional perception perceive?", at the International Workshop "Brain Correlates of Emotional Perception in Communication". Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, September 2-5, 2004.

K. Scherer: Keynote speech "Intonation as an Interface between Language and Affect", at the International Symposium "Understanding emotions: insights into emotion, communication and the brain"; Center for Junior Research Fellows Konstanz and Young Scientist Program (WIN) of the Heidelberg Academy of Science; Freudental Castle, Konstanz, Germany; September 23 – 26, 2004.

O. Stock: STAIRS Panel: AI Research in Europe – perspectives, careers and pitfalls, at ECAI’04, Valencia, 2004

O. Stock: Computational Humor. Università di Siena, 2004.

O. Stock: Macchine come Noi. Book presentation, with Y. Castelfranchi.. University of Roma La Sapienza, 2004.

O. Stock: Intelligenza Artificiale. Università di Trieste, 2004.

Projects thematically related to HUMAINE

R. Aylett: PhD studentship (Pablo dos Anjos) Affect as a gap-bridger between low-level and high-level action selection systems; started Oct 2004

A. Camurri: Master student thesis (Ginevra Castellano) "Experiments, analysis and models of motor activation as a component of an emotional process"

A. Camurri: special issue of IEEE MUltimedia on "Multisensory Communication and Experience through Multimedia", July-September 2004, Vol.11 No.3, Antonio Camurri and Thanassis Rikakis Eds.

C. Pelachaud, JC Martin, K. Scherer: Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, RIA- special edition on 'interaction emotionnelle' (affective interaction).
 

Use of the HUMAINE portal

The HUMAINE portal attracts great interest in the scientific community. This is reflected in two measures:

• The number of hits/visits to the portal (300 visits / per day as of November 2004, and steadily growing - see also the detailed usage statistics)

• The number of researchers not part of HUMAINE who have actively applied for an account on the HUMAINE portal (86 as of November 2004 - see also external member listing on the portal)