1. Speech technology and conversational activity in human-machine interaction / Nick Campbell -- 2. A framework for studying human multimodal communication / Jens Allwood -- 3. Giving computers personality? Personality in computers is in the eye of the user / Jorg Frommer, Dietmar Rosner, Julia Lange and Matthias Haase -- 4. Multi-modal classifier-fusion for the recognition of emotions / Martin Schels, Michael Glodek, Sascha Meudt, Stefan Scherer, Miriam Schmidt, Georg Layher, Stephan Tschechne, Tobias Brosch, David Hrabal, Steffen Walter, Harald C. Traue, Gunther Palm, Heiko Neumann and Friedhelm Schwenker -- 5. A framework for emotions and dispositions in man-companion interaction / Harald C. Traue, Frank Ohl, Andre Brechmann, Friedhelm Schwenker, Henrik Kessler, Kerstin Limbrecht, Holger Hoffmann, Stefan Scherer, Michael Kotzyba, Andreas Scheck and Steffen Walter -- 6. French face-to-face interaction : repetition as a multimodal resource / Roxane Bertrand, Gaelle Ferre and Mathilde Guardiola -- 7. The situated multimodal facets of human communication / Anna Esposito -- 8. From annotation to multimodal behavior / Kristiina Jokinen and Catherine Pelachaud 9. Co-speech gesture generation for embodied agents and its effects on user evaluation / Kirsten Bergmann -- 10. A survey of listener behavior and listener models for embodied conversational agents / Elisabetta Bevacqua -- 11. Human and virtual agent expressive gesture quality analysis and synthesis / Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Maurizio Mancini and Stefano Piana -- 12. A distributed architecture for real-time dialogue and on-task learning of efficient co-operative turn-taking / Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir and Kristinn R. Thorisson -- 13. TTS-driven synthetic behavior generation model for embodied conversational agents / Izidor Mlakar, Zdravko Kacic and Matej Rojc -- 14. Modeling human communication dynamics for virtual human / Louis-Philippe Morency, Ari Shapiro and Stacy Marsella -- 15. Multimodal fusion in human-agent dialogue / Elisabeth Andre, Jean-Claude Martin, Florian Lingenfelser and Johannes Wagner.