Computers in the Human Interaction Loop

Part 1 The CHIL Vision and Framework.- Computers in the Human Interaction Loop.- Part II Perceptual Technologies.- Perceptual Technologies: Analyzing the Who, What, Where of Human Interaction.- Person Tracking.- Multimodal Person Indentification.- Estimation of Head Pose.- Automatic Speech Recognition.- Acoustic Event Detection and Classification.- Language Technologies: Question Answering in Speech Transcripts.- Extracting Interaction Cues: Focus of Attention, Body Pose and Gestures.- Emotion Recognition.- Activity Classification.- Situation Modeling.- Targeted Audio.- Multimodal Interaction Control.- Perceptual Component Evaluation and Data Collection.- Part III Services.- User-centred Design of CHIL Services: Introduction.- The Collaborative Workspace: a Co-located Tabletop Device to Support Meetings.- The Memory Jog Services.- The Connector Service - Representing Availability for Mobile Communication.- Relational Cockpit.- Automatic Relational Reporting to Support Group Dynamics.- Part IV The CHIL Reference Architecture.- Introduction.- The CHIL Reference Model Architecture for Multi-Modal Perceptual Systems.- Low-Level Distributed Data-Transfer Layer: The ChilFlow Middleware.- Perceptual Component Data Models and APIs.- Situation Modeling Layer.- Ontological Modeling and Reasoning.- Building Scalable Services: The CHIL Agent Framework.- CHIL Integration Tools and Middleware.- Part IV Beyond CHIL.- Beyond CHIL.- Index