Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction : Second International Workshop, MA3HMI 2014, Held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Ronald Poppe.

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.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014. The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in two sections: human-machine interaction and dialogs and speech recognition.