2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction (ICMI/MLMI'09 post-conference workshop) Cambridge, MA, USA, November 5, 2009

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Papers

Comparison of Child-Human and Child-Computer Interactions based on Manual Annotations
Matthew Black, Jeannette Chang, Jonathan Chang, Shrikanth Narayanan

Towards a Language-independent Intelligibility Assessment of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate
Tobias Bocklet, Andreas Maier, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elmar Nöth

An Automatic Screening Test for Preschool Children: Theory and Data Collection
Tobias Bocklet, Cordula Winterholler, Andreas Maier, Maria Schuster, Elmar Nöth

Upper Limb Rehabilitation and Evaluation of Children Using a Humanoid Robot
Douglas Brooks, Ayanna Howard

Comparing Child and Adult Language: Exploring Semantic Constraints
Ismaïl El Maarouf, Farida Saïd, Jeanne Villaneau, Dominique Duhaut

A Review of ASR Technologies for Children's Speech
Matteo Gerosa, Diego Giuliani, Shrikanth Narayanan, Alexandros Potamianos

Whole Body Interaction for Child-Centered Multimodal Language Learning
Alberto Gonzalez, John Borland, Kathleen Geraghty

From Competitive to Social Two-player Videogames
Jesús Ibáñez Martínez, Carlos Delgado-Mata

Robustness Optimization of a Speech Interface for Child-Directed Embedded Language Tutoring
Oliver Jokisch, Horst-Udo Hain, Rico Petrick, Rüdiger Hoffmann

Fantasy, Curiosity and Challenge as Adaptation Indicators in Multimodal Dialog Systems for Preschoolers
Theofanis Kannetis, Alexandros Potamianos, Georgios N. Yannakakis

Pilot Experiments on Children's Voice Recording
Sawit Kasuriya and Alistair D. N. Edwards

Automatic Classification of Reading Disorders in a Single Word Reading Test
Andreas Maier, Stefanie Horndasch, Elmar Nöth

Assessing the Stress/Neutral Speech Environment in Adult/Child Interactions for Applications in Child Language Development
Sanjay Patil, John Hansen, Jill Gilkerson, Sharmistha Gray, Dongxin Xu

Interacting with Stories
Ashley Robinson, Chao Peng, Francis Quek, Yong Cao

Child Selection of Learning Methods: A Corpus Based on Real-World Data
Heikki Ruuska, Shinya Kiriyama, Yoichi Takebayashi

Avoiding Speaker Variability in Pronunciation Verification of Children's Disordered Speech
Oscar Saz, Eduardo Lleida, W.-Ricardo Rodríguez

Incorporating Music into the Study of Algorithms and Computer Programming
Takeo Tatsumi, Yoshiaki Nakano, Kiyoshi Tajitsu, Haruhiko Okumura, Yasunari Harada

Learning Meaningful Units from Multimodal Input and the Effect of Interaction Strategies
Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves, Okko Räsänen

Automatic Childhood Autism Detection by Vocalization Decomposition with Phone-like Units
Dongxin Xu, Jeffrey Richards, Jill Gilkerson, Umit Yapanel, Sharmistha Gray, John Hansen

Preliminary Study of Stress/Neutral Detection on Recordings of Children in the Natural Home Environment
Umit Yapanel, Dongxin Xu, John Hansen, Sharmistha Gray, Jill Gilkerson, Jeffrey Richards

Recognizing Child's Emotional State in Problem-Solving Child-Machine Interactions
Serdar Yildirim, Shrikanth Narayanan