Area I - "Theories and Models" of Emotion -- 1.0 Editorial - "Theories and Models"' of Emotion -- 1.1 Emotion - Concepts and Definitions -- 1.2 Emotions in Social Interactions - Unfolding Emotional Experience -- 1.3 Biological and Computational Constraints to Psychological Modelling of Emotion -- Area II - Signals to Signs -- 2.0 Editorial - "Signals to Signs" - Feature Extraction, Recognition and Multimodal Fusion -- 2.1 The Automatic Recognition of Emotions in Speech -- 2.2 Image and Video Processing for Affective Applications -- 2.3 Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Low-Level Cues -- 2.4 Physiological Signals and Their Use in Augmenting Emotion Recognition for Human-Machine Interaction -- Area III - Data and Databases -- 3.0 Editorial - "Data and Databases" -- 3.1 Principles and History -- 3.2 Issues in Data Collection -- 3.3 Issues in Data Labelling -- 3.4 The HUMAINE Database -- Area IV - Emotion in Interaction -- 4.0 Editorial - "Emotion in Interaction" -- 4.1 Fundamentals of Agent Perception and Attention Modelling -- 4.2 Generating Listening Behaviour -- 4.3 Coordinating the Generation of Signs in Multiple Modalities in an Affective Agent -- 4.4 Representing Emotions and Related States in Technological Systems -- 4.5 Embodied Conversational Characters - Representation Formats for Multimodal Communicative Behaviours -- -- Area V - Emotion in Cognition and Action -- 5.0 Editorial - Emotion in Cognition and Action -- 5.1 A Bottom-Up Investigation of Emotional Modulation in Competitive Scenarios -- 5.2 Novelty Processing and Emotion - Conceptual Developments, Empirical Findings and Virtual Environments -- 5.3 Cognitive Evaluations and Intuitive Appraisals - Can Emotion Models Handle Them Both? -- 5.4 Anticipation and Emotion -- 5.5 Socially Situated Affective Systems -- Area VI - Persuasion and Communication -- 6.0 Editorial - "Persuasion and Communication" -- 6.1 Emotion in Persuasion from a Persuader's Perspective - A True Marriage Between Cognition and Affect -- 6.2 Approaches to Verbal Persuasion in Intelligent User Interfaces -- 6.3 Non-verbal Persuasion and Communication in an Affective Agent -- 6.4 Computational Humour -- Area VII - Usability -- 7.0 Editorial - "Usability" -- 7.1 The Design and Evaluation Process -- 7.2 Understanding Users and Their Situation -- 7.3 Generating Ideas and Building Prototypes -- 7.4 Evaluation of Affective Interactive Applications -- Area VIII - Ethics and Good Practice -- 8.0 Editorial - "Ethics and Good Practice" - Computers and Forbidden Places - Where Machines May and May Not Go -- 8.1 Principalism - A Method for the Ethics of Emotion-Oriented Machines -- 8.2 The Ethical Distinctiveness of Emotion-Oriented Technology: Four Long-Term Issues -- 8.3 Emotion-Oriented Systems and the Autonomy of Persons -- 8.4 Ethics in Emotion-Oriented Systems: The Challenges for an Ethics Committee -- Glossary -- Index.