Human communication is naturally multimodal, involving the interaction of modalities such as speech, facial expressions, hand gestures and body posture. In order to have a better understanding of human-human communication and to improve human-computer interaction it is essential to identify, describe, formalise and model the interaction of the different modalities in interhuman communication. The past two decades have witnessed numerous initiatives and research efforts to improve the state of the art, including collection and annotation of multimodal data, automatic recognition of the different modalities, modelling and generation of multimodal data. However, there are still many questions and problems concerning the annotation of multimodal data, the technology for capturing data, not to mention the interpretation and reproduction of complex, natural multimodal behaviour.

The present workshop aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum to present results and discuss issues that concern research on human multimodal communication, its modelling and representation for computational systems.

For questions email to multicom2009 @ cst.dk or costanza @ hum.ku.dk.