Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones

These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically:

1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones;
2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access;
3. Dialog for robot interaction;
4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and,
5. Dialog quality evaluation.

These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.