Annotating the TCD D-ANS Corpus - A Multimodal Multimedia Monolingual Biometric Corpus of Spoken Social Interaction.- Steps Towards More Natural Human-Machine Interaction via Audio-Visual Word Prominence Detection -- Improving Robustness Against Environmental Sounds for Directing Attention of Social Robots.- On Annotation and Evaluation of Multi-modal Corpora in Affective Human-Computer Interaction.- Modelling User Experience in Human-Robot Interactions.- Disposition Recognition from Spontaneous Speech Towards a Combination with Co-speech Gestures.- ASR Independent Hybrid Recurrent Neural Network Based Error Correction for Dialog System Applications.- Acquisition and Use of Long-Term Memory for Personalized Dialog Systems -- An Automatic Shout Detection System Using Speech Production Features.- Collecting Data for Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Dialectal Arabic Using Games with a Purpose -- A Multimodal Multimedia Monolingual Biometric Corpus of Spoken Social Interaction.- Steps Towards More Natural Human-Machine Interaction via Audio-Visual Word Prominence Detection -- Improving Robustness Against Environmental Sounds for Directing Attention of Social Robots.- On Annotation and Evaluation of Multi-modal Corpora in Affective Human-Computer Interaction -- Modelling User Experience in Human-Robot Interactions.-Disposition Recognition from Spontaneous Speech Towards a Combination with Co-speech Gestures.- ASR Independent Hybrid Recurrent Neural Network Based Error Correction for Dialog System Applications.- Acquisition and Use of Long-Term Memory for Personalized Dialog Systems.- An Automatic Shout Detection System Using Speech Production Features.- Collecting Data for Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Dialectal Arabic Using Games with a Purpose.