Companion Technology: A Paradigm Shift in Human-Technology Interaction

Multilevel Knowledge Processing in Companion Systems.- Extending the Knowledge Base: Dynamic Query Planning for Querying Ontologies.- User-Centered Planning.- Explaining System-Generated Plans to Human Users.- Neurobiological Foundations of Strategy Change.- Assistive and Adaptive Dialogue Management.- The 'How' of Companion F eedback: Insights from Functional Imaging and Psychophysiology.- Management of Multimodal User Interaction in Companion Systems.- User-Adapted Guided Information Exploration.- Last Minute: An Empirical Experiment in User Companion Interaction.- Semantic and Nonlinguistic Data Representing Emotional States.- Environment Adaption for Companion Systems.- Emotion Recognition from Speech.- Automated Analysis of Human Facial Expression and Affect.- Social Signal Processing and Analysis in Companion Systems.- Nonintrusive Gesture Recognition in Real Companion Environments.- Companions Personalized Emotion Experience Model (COMPLEX).- Information Fusion.- Neural Mechanisms and Methods for Emotion Recognition.- Mobile Worker Assistance System and Interaction Methods for Automotive Application Scenarios.