The Special Session on Multimedia and Multimodal Interaction for Health and Basic Care Applications within the 23rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling aims at presenting the most recent works and applications in the area of multimedia analysis and multimodal interaction in the context of health and basic care. Leo Wanner, leader of the subproject Multimodal annotation for expressive communication, co-organises the session.

The research topics of the special session include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia analysis and retrieval for multimodal interaction in the health domain
• Multimedia indexing and retrieval with video recordings from medical endoscopy
• Multimodal conversation and dialogue systems for social companion agents
• Exploration and retrieval in endoscopic video
• Speech and audio analysis and retrieval for health applications
• Facial analysis and gesture recognition in social agents
• Fusion of multimedia information for health and care-giving applications
• Semantic web approaches for multimedia health applications
• Multimodal analytics for human machine interaction in the health domain
• Web and social media retrieval for knowledge-based social companion applications