. at Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT),Japan. He received the ME degree in Information Science and Engineeringfrom TIT in 2002. His research interests are speech information processing,especially. convinced that computer scientists, engineers, and others who work in the area of spoken multimodal dialogue systems, no matter if in academiaor in industry, may find the volume interesting. ap-propriate use of interaction modalities, the management of dialogue historyand context, the incorporation of intelligence into the system in the form ofdomain reasoning, and finally, the problem...