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2014
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(2014) : Active or passive?: Investigating the impact of robot role in meetings: RO-MAN: the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014: 25 - 29 Aug. 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: 2014 RO-MAN: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Edinburgh, UK: 8/25/2014 - 8/29/2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication; IEEE Ro-Man: Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, S. 580-585
Abstract: Meetings are an integral part of the work place and society in general. Research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work attempts to facilitate and make the process of meetings more effective. Our vision is that the incorporation of social robots in such human-human collaborative settings can assist and improve the effectiveness of a meeting. In this paper we present an empirical study in which pairs of participants collaborate in a meeting scenario with a Nao humanoid robot. Using a within-subjects design, we manipulated the robot's role within the meeting as being either “active” versus “passive”/“service-oriented”. Our results show that the more active robot was deemed as more more alive and social, had the participants more emotionally involved and caused more verbal engagement from the participants as compared to a passive service robot. In conclusion, we speculate on the inclusion of a collaborative robot as a meeting partner.
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(2014): Pierre Bourdieu. Eine systematische Einführung. 1. Aufl.. Berlin: Suhrkamp
Abstract: Hinsichtlich ihrer klaren Diktion und didaktischen Reflektiertheit wirkt diese "systematische Einführung" in das Werk Bourdieus eher reihenuntypisch. Wenn das gut strukturierte Buch des Professors für Soziologie an der HU Berlin dennoch einen konzentrierten, möglichst sozialwissenschaftlich vorgeprägten Leser erfordert, liegt das vor allem am komplexen und vielschichtigen Werk des französischen Soziologen und Philosophen selbst, der sich auch gern auf politische Diskussionen eingelassen hat bzw. diese provozierte. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in Leben und Werk beschreibt Müller fundiert den "analytischen Baukasten" samt der Klärung von Schlüsselbegriffen (u.a. "Struktur", "Habitus", "soziale Felder", "Kapital"). Im 2. Hauptabschnitt analysiert er jeweils in eigenen Kapiteln die bevorzugten empirischen Studien(-felder) Bourdieus (u.a. Bildung, Klasse, Literatur, Ökonomie). Auch wenn dies angesichts der Alternativen bei Reclam (J. Jurt: BA 7/08), Junius (M. Schwingel: ID 25/09) und Metzler ("Bourdieu-Handbuch", ID 48/09) schwer wird, wäre der gelungenen Einführung ein gröe︢rer Leserkreis zu wünschen. (3)
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(2014): Advances in social cognition research. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publisher's, Inc (Perspectives on cognitive psychology)
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(2014) : Aspects of Socially Assistive Robots Design for Dementia Care: 2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems: New York, NY: IEEE, S. 396-400
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.16 Abstract: Increasing prevalence of dementia matched with higher demand on healthcare services poses a challenge to society. The use of innovative technologies such as robotics has been identified as one of the solutions to this predicament. The design of Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) is a multidisciplinary field that needs to incorporate the diverse requirements of people with dementia and their carers. This paper attempts to identify important considerations for the successful design of SARs and to categorize them. A taxonomy of SAR’s features is proposed, best practice design approaches, technology acceptance and ethical issues are examined. Recommendations for future areas of research are outlined.
Keywords: Dementia, dementia care, ethical aspects, ethical issues, health care services, ieee xplore, inclusive design, medical robotics, Moral & Ethik, Patient Care, roboethics, Robot sensing systems, Robotics, SAR, Senior citizens, service robot, Socially Assistive Robot (SAR), socially assistive robot design, taxonomy, technology acceptance -
(2014): What matters to the rich and the poor? Subjective well-being, financial satisfaction, and postmaterialist needs across the world. In: Journal of personality and social psychology 107 (2), S. 326-338. DOI: 10.1037/a0036856
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25090131 Abstract: This study explored the importance of financial satisfaction versus postmaterialist needs for subjective well-being (SWB). Using the Gallup World Poll, we examined whether financial satisfaction and postmaterialist needs (pertaining to autonomy, social support, and respect) were universal predictors of the different components of SWB across the world, and whether their effects were moderated by national affluence. Results showed that financial satisfaction was the strongest predictor of life evaluation, whereas respect was the strongest predictor of positive feelings. Both measures predicted negative feelings to some extent. Multilevel analyses also revealed moderating effects of societal wealth. The association between financial satisfaction and SWB and that between postmaterialist needs and SWB were stronger in richer nations compared with poorer ones. This suggests that developed economies should continue to focus on both material and psychological aspects, and not disregard economic gains, as both measures are essential to well-being.
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(2014): Improving the modeling of dog-owner interactions for the design of social robots. In: Interaction Studies 15 (2), S. 180-183. DOI: 10.1075/is.15.2.03nic
Abstract: The paper presents an ethological perspective on designing robot behaviors for successful social interactions with humans. In particular, the types of behaviors that occur in interactions between dogs and their owners are analyzed to provide insights into how robot behaviors should be created.
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(2014): The role of age and motivation for the experience of social acceptance and rejection. In: Developmental Psychology 50 (7), S. 1943-1950. DOI: 10.1037/a0036979
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24842461 Abstract: A study with n = 55 younger (18-33 years, M = 23.67) and n = 58 older (61-85 years, M = 71.44) adults investigated age-related differences in social approach and avoidance motivation and their consequences for the experience of social interactions. Results confirmed the hypothesis that a predominant habitual approach motivation in younger adults shifts toward a stronger avoidance motivation in older adults. Moreover, age and momentary motivation predicted the experience of an actual social interaction. Younger adults reported stronger negative emotions in a rejection situation when striving to approach acceptance rather than avoid rejection. Conversely, older adults reported fewer positive emotions in a rejection situation when they attempted to avoid rejection rather than approach acceptance. Taken together, the present study demonstrates that the same motivation has different consequences for the experience of potentially threatening social situations in younger and older adults. People seem to react emotionally when the achievement of important developmental goals (approaching others in young adulthood, avoiding negative social interactions in older adulthood) is thwarted. Moreover, results suggest that approach and avoidance motivation play an important role for socioemotional development.
Keywords: 80 and over, Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Alter, Analysis of Variance, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Gerontologie, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Middle Aged, Motivation, physiology, PSYCHOLOGY, Self Report, Social Distance, Social Support, Sozialpsychologie, Young Adult -
(2014): Emotions in robot psychology. In: Biological cybernetics 108 (5), S. 621-629. DOI: 10.1007/s00422-014-0594-6
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24677038 Abstract: In his famous thought experiments on synthetic vehicles, Valentino Braitenberg stipulated that simple stimulus-response reactions in an organism could evoke the appearance of complex behavior, which, to the unsuspecting human observer, may even appear to be driven by emotions such as fear, aggression, and even love (Braitenberg, Vehikel. Experimente mit künstlichen Wesen, Lit Verlag, 2004). In fact, humans appear to have a strong propensity to anthropomorphize, driven by our inherent desire for predictability that will quickly lead us to discern patterns, cause-and-effect relationships, and yes, emotions, in animated entities, be they natural or artificial. But might there be reasons, that we should intentionally "implement" emotions into artificial entities, such as robots? How would we proceed in creating robot emotions? And what, if any, are the ethical implications of creating "emotional" robots? The following article aims to shed some light on these questions with a multi-disciplinary review of recent empirical investigations into the various facets of emotions in robot psychology.
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(2014): The role of emotions in inter-action selection. In: Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems 15 (2), S. 216-223. DOI: 10.1075/is.15.2.10nov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/is.15.2.10nov Abstract: Comments on the original article by Faragó et al. (see record [rid]2014-41524-001[/rid]) regarding the design of social robots. They draw attention to an important issue for researchers of human-robot interaction (HRI): can we conceive a scheme for making social robot behaviour both comprehensible and appropriate in human social settings? We agree with the authors concerning the potential utility of drawing on the example of domestic animals—particularly dogs, the species with which we have the longest history of co-evolution as social interactors. Here we seek to extend from the authors emphasis on the detail of species-specific interaction to a general blueprint for robot action selection. We particularly emphasise the integral role of emotions in facilitating social inter-action selection as social signals of internal agent states that are relevant to joint action. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2014): A Framework for User-Defined Body Gestures to Control a Humanoid Robot. In: International Journal of Social Robotics 6 (3), S. 383-396. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-014-0233-3
Abstract: This paper presents a framework that allows users to interact with and navigate a humanoid robot using body gestures. The first part of the paper describes a study to define intuitive gestures for eleven navigational commands based on analyzing 385 gestures performed by 35 participants. From the study results, we present a taxonomy of the user-defined gesture sets, agreement scores for the gesture sets, and time performances of the gesture motions. The second part of the paper presents a full body interaction system for recognizing the user-defined gestures. We evaluate the system by recruiting 22 participants to test for the accuracy of the proposed system. The results show that most of the defined gestures can be successfully recognized with a precision between 86100 % and an accuracy between 7396 %. We discuss the limitations of the system and present future work improvements.
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(2014): Subclinical Bias, Manners, and Moral Harm. In: Hypatia 29 (2), S. 287-302. DOI: 10.1111/hypa.12026
Abstract: Mundane and often subtle forms of bias generate harms that can be fruitfully understood as akin to the harms evident in rudeness. Although subclinical expressions of bias are not mere rudeness, like rudeness they often manifest through the breach of mannerly norms for social cooperation and collaboration. At a basic level, the perceived harm of mundane forms of bias often has much to do with feeling oneself unjustly or arbitrarily cut out of a group, a group that cooperates and collaborates but does not do so with me. Appealing to the subtle but familiar choreography of mannered social interaction, I argue, makes it easier to recognize how exclusion can be accomplished through slight but symbolically significant gestures and styles of interaction, where bias manifests not in announced hostility but in an absence of the cooperation and collaboration upon which we rely socially.
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(2014): Romeo2 Project: Humanoid Robot Assistant and Companion for Everyday Life. I. Situation Assessment for Social Intelligence. In: Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, S. 140-147. Online verfügbar unter https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01096094
Abstract: For a socially intelligent robot, different levels of situation as-sessment are required, ranging from basic processing of sensor input tohigh-level analysis of semantics and intention. However, the attempt tocombine them all prompts new research challenges and the need of a co-herent framework and architecture.This paper presents the situation assessment aspect of Romeo2, a uniqueproject aiming to bring multi-modal and multi-layered perception on asingle system and targeting for a unified theoretical and functional frame-work for a robot companion for everyday life. It also discusses some of theinnovation potentials, which the combination of these various perceptionabilities adds into the robot’s socio-cognitive capabilities.
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(2014): Ethics and the Social Dimension of Research Activities. In: Human Studies 37 (2), S. 257-277. DOI: 10.1007/s10746-013-9299-4Keywords: time
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(2014): Between Persons. How Concepts of the Person Make Moral Experience Possible. In: Ethos 42 (1), S. 31-50. DOI: 10.1111/etho.12037
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12037 Abstract: Moral theories often conflate morality with society or mind, while detaching mind from society, and society from subjectivity. This eliminates the existential 'space between' persons where morality is a process of making mutually recognized lives possible. Moral experience is a cultural experience of intersubjectivity, which has social and cultural, subjective and reflective, imaginative and practical, and existential and bodily dimensions. Concepts of the person organize the moral possibilities of intersubjectivity; they can help situate culturally formulated ethics in 'the space between persons' in ways that help generate the moral presence afforded others and self. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 14
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(2014): Social desirability scales as indicators of self-enhancement and impression management. In: Journal of Personality Assessment 96 (5), S. 532-543. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2014.916714
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24837586 Abstract: This article presents 2 studies testing Paulhus's (2002) assumption that unconscious self-enhancement and conscious impression management represent separate processes of socially desirable responding (SDR) that can be observed within 2 content domains (egoistic and moralistic bias). In Study 1, we devised egoistic and moralistic SDR scales intended to measure self-enhancement in honest responding and impression management under demands for positive self-presentation. In Study 2, we correlated scores on these scales with external indicators of self-enhancement and impression management. In honest responding, both SDR scales most strongly correlated with self-enhancement indicators, whereas under demands for positive self-presentation they correlated more strongly with external measures of impression management.
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(2014): The Psychology of Human Leadership. How To Develop Charisma and Authority. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint, Springer
Abstract: The book seamlessly links fundamental insights and practical approaches to address the most important leadership problems and challenges. Each of the 11 chapters takes a close look at a specific leadership aspect and explains how to develop personal leadership qualities, such as charisma, the ability to motivate others, assertiveness, and how to overcome crises and conflicts to create new structures. Ethical questions and possible negative developments in connection with leadership and power are also examined. Unlike conventional leadership manuals, this book on leadership goes beyond the standard 'recipes' and models by providing clear trains of thought as well as a psychological and philosophical basis, and by focusing on major achievements in terms of leadership, it creates a more profound understanding and holistic view of the subject of leadership, while promoting a genuine fascination for it.
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(2014): Making Sense of Culture. In: Annual Review of Sociology 40 (1), S. 1-30. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043123
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(2014): Illegitimate tasks and sleep quality: An ambulatory study. In: Stress and health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress 30 (3), S. 209-221. DOI: 10.1002/smi.2599
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100272 Abstract: The current study investigated the short-term effect of illegitimate tasks on sleep quality, assessed by actigraphy. Seventy-six employees of different service jobs participated in a 2-week data collection. Data were analysed by way of multilevel analyses. As predicted, illegitimate tasks were positively related to sleep fragmentation and sleep-onset latency, but not to sleep efficiency and not to sleep duration. Time pressure, social stressors at work and at home, and the value of the dependent variable from the previous day were controlled. Results confirm the predictive power of illegitimate tasks for a variable that can be considered crucial in the development of long-term outcomes of daily experiences.
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(2014): Consumer Decision-making Processes in Mobile Viral Marketing Campaigns. In: Journal of Interactive Marketing 28 (1), S. 43-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.intmar.2013.08.001
Abstract: The high penetration of cell phones in today's global environment offers a wide range of promising mobile marketing activities, including mobile viral marketing campaigns. However, the success of these campaigns, which remains unexplored, depends on the consumers' willingness to actively forward the advertisements that they receive to acquaintances, e.g., to make mobile referrals. Therefore, it is important to identify and understand the factors that influence consumer referral behavior via mobile devices. The authors analyze a three-stage model of consumer referral behavior via mobile devices in a field study of a firm-created mobile viral marketing campaign. The findings suggest that consumers who place high importance on the purposive value and entertainment value of a message are likely to enter the interest and referral stages. Accounting for consumers' egocentric social networks, we find that tie strength has a negative influence on the reading and decision to refer stages and that degree centrality has no influence on the decision-making process.
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(2014): The Performing Body in Renaissance Literature and Dance. In: Anglia 132 (1), S. 23-39. DOI: 10.1515/anglia-2014-0002
Abstract: In a time of representation and self-fashioning, as in the Renaissance, the body becomes the main vehicle of expression. Renaissance self-fashioning is one example of how the body was made into a 'product', an exhibit of the social and political discourses of its time. The most efficient means provided by 'polite learning' of exercising and forming the body (both for purposes of representation, and as proof of one's physical prowess and health) was dance: rigorous daily practice would facilitate the proper accomplishment of one's duties at court according to the courtly ideal of control, refinement and grace (in keeping with the concept of sprezzatura). As a well-established discursive practice of the time, dance was a powerful instrument of royal propaganda and an ideal means of vindicating the networks of power. In this paper, I will use the example of the Masque to show how dance and images of dance in literature were used in Elizabethan and Jacobean culture to legitimize and 'inscribe', but also to undermine and subvert the power structures of the period for the promotion of individual interests.
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(2014): Evidence that accent is a dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of perceptual salience, familiarity, or ease-of-processing. In: Evolution and Human Behavior 35 (1), S. 43-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.09.006
Abstract: Certain features of language, such as accent, are acquired from the local social environment during an acquisition period starting at infancy and ending roughly at puberty. If the scale of social interaction expands after puberty, humans will encounter variance in these linguistic features, and the linguistic similarity between people will indicate the degree to which they share a common early social history. There is reason to believe that such a dynamic is not a modern phenomenon, but has likely occurred throughout our species' evolutionary history since the advent of language. Consequently, the human mind may contain systems for categorizing others according to their linguistic repertoires, including their accents. Four studies demonstrate that (i) accent differences-both native versus non-native accents and also two different non-native accents, are the basis of spontaneous and implicit social categorization, and (ii) this is not driven by general acoustic-differences, low level sound differences, or differences in familiarity or ease-of-processing. Results are consistent with the hypothesis that human mind contains systems for categorizing others according to their accents.
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(2014): The expression of inequality in interaction. Power, dominance, and status. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company (Pragmatics & beyond)
Abstract: In keeping with the profile of Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, this volume presents and discusses issues that are central to aspects of social inequality, power, dominance and status as expressed in discourse in its broadest sense. The volume aggregates research efforts of the past years, and it constitutes a point of departure for future studies. The contributions challenge the widespread assumption that concepts such as inequality, power, dominance and status are predetermined in discourse; the volume, including contributions by international scholars from various disciplines such as linguistics, sociology and social psychology rather emphasizes the co-constructedness of these concepts in ordinary discourse and thus advances the potential for insights into how aspects of inequality, power, dominance and status are both made and understood. This volume has been designed to promote recent research on a classic topic, relating discursive, cognitive and social dimensions of inequality in most of the social sciences and the humanities. The volume aims at an international readership, making this book of interest to both researchers and advanced students in linguistic pragmatics, usage-based linguistics, ethnography of speaking, sociology and social psychology.
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(2014): Contextualizing from Within. Perceptions of Physical Disorder in a South Central L.A. African American Mosque. In: City & Community 13 (3), S. 214-232. DOI: 10.1111/cico.12078
Abstract: Physical disorder is fundamental to how urban sociologists understand the inner workings of a neighborhood. This article takes advantage of ethnographic and historical research to understand how, over time, participants in an urban mosque in South Central Los Angeles develop patterns of meaning-making and decision-making about physical disorder. I examine how specific negative physical conditions on the property came to exist as well as the varied processes by which they changed both improving and worsening over the community's long history. Contrary to dominant social disorganization and broken windows theories that argue disorder is always a destructive force, I find that members saw specific signs of physical disorder as links to their collective past as well as placeholders for a future they hoped to construct. I then analyze how these shared imaginings shaped the ways members responded to physical problems in the present. The strength of this contextualizing from within approach is that attention to context and period allows researchers to better theorize why communities may or may not organize to repair physical disorder.
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(2014): Social Work Values and Principles. Students' Experiences in intervention with Children and Youths in Detention. In: Journal of Social Work Practice 28 (4), S. 445-460. DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2014.913236
Abstract: A project with children and juveniles in a detention centre confronts social work students with their own perceptions and experiences of being direct or indirect victims of crime, with their own values and with integrating the values and principles of social work. Within an ecological perspective, past and present issues in the country's context influence perceptions and personal values. The project challenges these perceptions and value systems. Feedback include that students realise they should not judge the young people; that these youngsters have dignity and worth in spite of where they come from and the crime they committed; that they deserve respect and should be accepted for who they are. The article discusses professional values and principles in social work and provides a case study of dealing with undergraduate social work students' fears, emotions and prejudices in teaching and integrating social work values and principles.
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(2014) : A system for feature classification of emotions based on speech analysis; applications to human-robot interaction: 2014 Second RSI/ISM International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM): Tehran, Iran: IEEE, S. 795-800
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRoM.2014.6991001 Abstract: A system for recognition of emotions based on speech analysis can have interesting applications in human robot interaction. Robot should make a proper mutual communication between sound recognition and perception for creating a desired emotional interaction with humans. Advanced research in this field will be based on sound analysis and recognition of emotions in spontaneous dialog. In this paper, we report the results obtained from an exploratory study on a methodology to automatically recognize and classify basic emotional states. The study attempted to investigate the appropriateness of using acoustic and phonetic properties of emotive speech with the minimal use of signal processing algorithms. The efficiency of the methodology was evaluated by experimental tests on adult European speakers. The speakers had to repeat six simple sentences in English language in order to emphasize features of the pitch (peak, value and range), the intensity of the speech, the formants and the speech rate. The proposed methodology using the freeware program (PRAAT) and consists of generating and analyzing a graph of pitch, formant and intensity of speech signals for classify basic emotion. Eventually, the proposed model provided successful recognition of the basic emotion in most of the cases.
Keywords: acoustic properties, Acoustics, adult European speakers, Angemessen(heit) (von Technik), emotion feature classification, emotion recognition, emotional interaction, emotional state classification, emotional state recognition, emotive speech, English language, Feature extraction, formant, formants, graph analysis, graph generation, graph theory, human-robot interaction, ieee xplore, mutual communication, phonetic properties, pitch, pitch features, PRAAT freeware program, public domain software, Shape, signal classification, signal processing algorithms, sound analysis, sound perception, sound recognition, speech, speech analysis, speech intensity, speech rate, speech recognition, speech signals, spontaneous dialog