Perception and Interactive Technologies: International Tutorial and Research Workshop, Kloster Irsee, Pit 2006, Germany, June 19-21, 2006

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies, PIT 2006, held at Kloster Irsee, Germany in June 2006.The 16 revised full papers presented together with 4 revised poster papers and 6 system demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on head pose and eye gaze tracking, modeling and simulation of perception, integrating information from multiple channels, visual and auditory display driven by perceptive principles, spoken dialogue systems, multimodal and situated dialogue systems, and integration of perceptive technologies and animation.