This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the COST 2102 International Conference on Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction, held in Patras, Greece, October 29 -31, 2007. This work organizes these papers in topical sections on static and dynamic processing of faces, facial expressions and gaze.

- Static and Dynamic Processing of Faces, Facial Expressions, and Gaze.- Data Mining Spontaneous Facial Behavior with Automatic Expression Coding.- Ekfrasis: A Formal Language for Representing and Generating Sequences of Facial Patterns for Studying Emotional Behavior.- On the Relevance of Facial Expressions for Biometric Recognition.- Biometric Face Recognition with Different Training and Testing Databases.- Combining Features for Recognizing Emotional Facial Expressions in Static Images.- Mutually Coordinated Anticipatory Multimodal Interaction.- Affordances and Cognitive Walkthrough for Analyzing Human-Virtual Human Interaction.- - Emotional Speech Synthesis and Recognition: Applications to Telecommunication Systems.- Individual Traits of Speaking Style and Speech Rhythm in a Spoken Discourse.- The Organization of a Neurocomputational Control Model for Articulatory Speech Synthesis.- Automatic Speech Recognition Used for Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems.- ECESS Platform for Web Based TTS Modules and Systems Evaluation.- Towards Slovak Broadcast News Automatic Recording and Transcribing Service.- Computational Stylometry: Who’s in a Play?.- The Acoustic Front-End in Scenarios of Interaction Research.- Application of Expressive Speech in TTS System with Cepstral Description.- Speech Emotion Perception by Human and Machine.- Expressive Speech Synthesis Using Emotion-Specific Speech Inventories.- Study on Speaker-Independent Emotion Recognition from Speech on Real-World Data.- Exploiting a Vowel Based Approach for Acted Emotion Recognition.- Towards Annotation of Nonverbal Vocal Gestures in Slovak.- The CineLingua Approach: Verbal and Non-verbal Features in Second Language Acquisition. Film Narrative to Anchor Comprehension and Production.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the COST 2102 International Conference on Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction, held in Patras, Greece, October 29 -31, 2007 The 21 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on static and dynamic processing of faces, facial expressions and gaze as well as emotional speech synthesis and recognition.