Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 mint-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.0/ Multi-modal, Multi-Speaker Dialogue Turns Modeling with Multi-modal LLMs Lukas Hilgert author Jan Niehues author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 hilgert-niehues-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.1/ 2026-10 1 9 From Output Metrics to Cognitive Process: Disfluency and Lexical Entrainment for Evaluating Real-Time AI-Mediated Communication Wanqing Psyche He author Susan Fussell author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 he-fussell-2026-output https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.2/ 2026-10 10 21 Cadence-Stratified Multimodal Perception for Real-Time Child–Robot Interaction Marwan Mohammed author Javad Zarrin author Salma ElSayed author Vera Kempe author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 mohammed-etal-2026-cadence https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.3/ 2026-10 22 32 Multimodal Code-Mixed Hindi-English Dataset For Humor Recognition in Conversations Abhishek Singh Bisht author Rakesh Kumar author Amrita Chaturvedi author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 bisht-etal-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.4/ 2026-10 33 39 Heads That Ask: Prosody of Questionhood in Whispering and Mutual (In)visibility of Speakers Nasim Mahdinazhad Sardhaei author Marzena Zygis author Hamid Sharifzadeh author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 sardhaei-etal-2026-heads https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.5/ 2026-10 40 49 Exploring Multimodal Turn-Taking Cues in Face-to-Face Conversation using Voice Activity Projection Willem Berner author Julio Cesar Cavalcanti author Kalle Åström author Gabriel Skantze author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 berner-etal-2026-exploring https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.6/ 2026-10 50 58 Automatic Annotation of Co-speech Gesture for Multimodal Communication Research – A Framework and a Case Study Ilya Burenko author Peter Uhrig author Anna Wilson author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 burenko-etal-2026-automatic https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.7/ 2026-10 59 71 Same Motions, Different Winners: The Gesture-Generation Leaderboard and Its Human Agreement Are Configuration-Tunable Deep Gandhi author Ali Asaria author Tony Salomone author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 gandhi-etal-2026-motions https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.8/ 2026-10 72 77 Behavioral Alignment and the Engagement for Non-Speaking Participants in Online Meetings Trung Duc Anh Dang author Zhiqing Peng author Patrizia Paggio author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 dang-etal-2026-behavioral https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.9/ 2026-10 78 88 Including Non-Manual Markers in Studies of American Sign Language Dialogue Jillian Stebbins author Amber Hamilton author Emily Nover author Stephanie Patterson author Allison Fitch author Patrick Boudreault author Raja Kushalnagar author Cecilia O Alm author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 stebbins-etal-2026-including https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.10/ 2026-10 89 95 Do Motion Tokenizers for Co-Speech Gesture Generation Encode Gesture Semantics? Varsha Suresh author Divij Jain author Jia Liu author M Hamza Mughal author Vera Demberg author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 suresh-etal-2026-motion https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.11/ 2026-10 96 104 Looking for Objects and Looking for Help: Robot Gaze Elicits Human Cooperation Anna Manaseryan author Thi Lan Anh Bui author Casey Kennington author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 manaseryan-etal-2026-looking https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.12/ 2026-10 105 116 Speaker gaze and disfluencies during storytelling toward a robot or a human: The role of partner type and temperamental shyness Nils Frederik Tolksdorf author Adriana Hanulíková author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 tolksdorf-hanulikova-2026-speaker https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.13/ 2026-10 117 126 FriendBench: Benchmarking Dyadic Familiarity Inference in Humans and Multimodal Large Language Models Jeffrey M Girard author Jason Zheng author Jacqueline Romero Vertino author Antony D’Avirro author Benjamin Peloquin author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 girard-etal-2026-friendbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.14/ 2026-10 127 143 MentaLED: A Multimodal Conversational Agent for Mental Health Support Using Linguistic and Paralinguistic Speech Cues Changhyun Kim author Dahye Kim author Eunseon Seong author Harim Lee author Sangyool Lee author Dong-Kyu Chae author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 kim-etal-2026-mentaled https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.15/ 2026-10 144 149 Annotating and Recognizing the Palm Up Open Hand Gesture in Dutch Fenna Berger author Alan Cienki author Lucia Donatelli author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 berger-etal-2026-annotating https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.16/ 2026-10 150 159 The Hidden Cost of Personality: How Conditioning Methods Disrupt Gesture Generation in Small Language Models Tova Radhe author Alessio Galatolo author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 radhe-galatolo-2026-hidden https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.17/ 2026-10 160 174 Gaze as Evidence for Common Grounding: A Cross-Corpus Analysis of MapTask and MUNDEX Nan Li author Albert Gatt author Massimo Poesio author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Esam Ghaleb editor Ece Takmaz editor Diego Frassinelli editor Bulat Khaertdinov editor Raquel Fernández editor Zerrin Yumak editor Asli Ozyurek editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-482-8 li-etal-2026-gaze https://aclanthology.org/2026.mint-1.18/ 2026-10 175 190