Companion Technology: A Paradigm Shift in Human-Technology Interaction

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 An Introduction to Companion-Technology  (Susanne Biundo, Andreas Wendemuth)....Pages 1-15
 Multi-level Knowledge Processing in Cognitive Technical Systems  (Thomas Geier, Susanne Biundo)....Pages 17-36
 Model-Based Frameworks for User Adapted Information Exploration: An Overview  (Michael Kotzyba, Tatiana Gossen, Sebastian Stober, Andreas Nürnberger)....Pages 37-56
 Modeling Aspects in Human-Computer Interaction: Adaptivity, User Characteristics and Evaluation  (Tatiana Gossen, Ingo Siegert, Andreas Nürnberger, Kim Hartmann, Michael Kotzyba, Andreas Wendemuth)....Pages 57-78
 User-Centered Planning  (Pascal Bercher, Daniel Höller, Gregor Behnke, Susanne Biundo)....Pages 79-100
 Addressing Uncertainty in Hierarchical User-Centered Planning  (Felix Richter, Susanne Biundo)....Pages 101-121
 To Plan for the User Is to Plan with the User: Integrating User Interaction into the Planning Process  (Gregor Behnke, Florian Nielsen, Marvin Schiller, Denis Ponomaryov, Pascal Bercher, Birte Glimm et al.)....Pages 123-144
 Neurobiological Fundamentals of Strategy Change: A Core Competence of Companion-Systems  (Andreas L. Schulz, Marie L. Woldeit, Frank W. Ohl)....Pages 145-166
 Assistive and Adaptive Dialog Management  (Florian Nielsen, Wolfgang Minker)....Pages 167-186
 Management of Multimodal User Interaction in Companion-Systems  (Felix Schüssel, Frank Honold, Nikola Bubalo, Michael Weber, Anke Huckauf)....Pages 187-207
 Interaction with Adaptive and Ubiquitous User Interfaces  (Jan Gugenheimer, Christian Winkler, Dennis Wolf, Enrico Rukzio)....Pages 209-229
 Interaction History in Adaptive Multimodal Interaction  (Nikola Bubalo, Felix Schüssel, Frank Honold, Michael Weber, Anke Huckauf)....Pages 231-251
 LAST MINUTE: An Empirical Experiment in User-Companion Interaction and Its Evaluation  (Jörg Frommer, Dietmar Rösner, Rico Andrich, Rafael Friesen, Stephan Günther, Matthias Haase et al.)....Pages 253-275
 The LAST MINUTE Corpus as a Research Resource: From Signal Processing to Behavioral Analyses in User-Companion Interactions  (Dietmar Rösner, Jörg Frommer, Andreas Wendemuth, Thomas Bauer, Stephan Günther, Matthias Haase et al.)....Pages 277-299
 Environment Adaption for Companion-Systems  (Stephan Reuter, Alexander Scheel, Thomas Geier, Klaus Dietmayer)....Pages 301-320
 Non-intrusive Gesture Recognition in Real Companion Environments  (Sebastian Handrich, Omer Rashid, Ayoub Al-Hamadi)....Pages 321-343
 Analysis of Articulated Motion for Social Signal Processing  (Georg Layher, Michael Glodek, Heiko Neumann)....Pages 345-364
 Automated Analysis of Head Pose, Facial Expression and Affect  (Robert Niese, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Heiko Neumann)....Pages 365-386
 Multimodal Affect Recognition in the Context of Human-Computer Interaction for Companion-Systems  (Friedhelm Schwenker, Ronald Böck, Martin Schels, Sascha Meudt, Ingo Siegert, Michael Glodek et al.)....Pages 387-408
 Emotion Recognition from Speech  (Andreas Wendemuth, Bogdan Vlasenko, Ingo Siegert, Ronald Böck, Friedhelm Schwenker, Günther Palm)....Pages 409-428
 Modeling Emotions in Simulated Computer-Mediated Human-Human Interactions in a Virtual Game Environment  (Andreas Scheck, Holger Hoffmann, Harald C. Traue, Henrik Kessler)....Pages 429-448
 Companion-Systems: A Reference Architecture  (Thilo Hörnle, Michael Tornow, Frank Honold, Reinhard Schwegler, Ralph Heinemann, Susanne Biundo et al.)....Pages 449-469
 Investigation of an Augmented Reality-Based Machine Operator Assistance-System  (Frerk Saxen, Anne Köpsel, Simon Adler, Rüdiger Mecke, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Johannes Tümler et al.)....Pages 471-483
 Advanced User Assistance for Setting Up a Home Theater  (Pascal Bercher, Felix Richter, Thilo Hörnle, Thomas Geier, Daniel Höller, Gregor Behnke et al.)....Pages 485-491
 Multi-modal Information Processing inCompanion-Systems: A Ticket Purchase System  (Ingo Siegert, Felix Schüssel, Miriam Schmidt, Stephan Reuter, Sascha Meudt, Georg Layher et al.)....Pages 493-500