
Series Editors 
Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon Universit3r Pittsburgh, PA, USA 
J6rg 
Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbriicken, Germany 
Volume Editors 
Harry Bunt 
Tilburg University 
Warandelaan 2, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands 
E-mail: bunt@kub.nl 
Robbert-Jan Beun 
Center for Research on User-System Interaction (IPO) 
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven,The Netherlands 
E-mail: rjbeun@ipo.tue.nl 
Tijn Borghuis 
Eindhoven University of Technology 
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven,The Netherlands 
E-mail: tijn@win.tue.nl 
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Muitimodal  human  computer  communication  : 
systems, 
techniques,  and experiments /  Harry Bunt  ...  (ed.).  -  Berlin ; 
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London ;  Milan 
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Springer, 
1998 
(Lecture notes in computer science  ; Vol. 1374  : Lecture notes in 
artificial intelligence) 
ISBN 3-540-64380-X 
CR Subject Classification (1991):  1.2, H.5.1-2, 1.3.6,  D.2.2, K.4.2 
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