Cognitive processes - such as inference, categorization, and memory - are not independent from their physical instantiations. Individual choices, perception and actions emerge and are dynamically affected/enhanced by the interaction between sensory-motor systems and the inhabited environment (including the organizational, cultural and physical context). This interplay brings up instantiations of cognitive behavioural systems.

How these aspects can be modeled in order to achieve a machine intelligence close to the human expectations. Do we have already a computational paradigm or do we need to learn more from signals and data?. How much trustful,  credible and satisfactory an emotionally colored multimodal system will appear to the end user? Which role will play the physical instantiation and the appearance in the interaction.

In this context, the last COST 2102 training school will substantially shift the focus from the initial approaches and the research topics from which the Action started, devoted to study multimodal signals and their contribute to the interaction, and will set the basis for a new research network, hopefully implemented by a new COST Action.

Given the success of previous COST 2102 Training Schools, this training school will have a similar set-up. Students, coming from COST 2102 labs and from other EU and non-EU labs, will be invited to contribute and present their own research works in front of the trainers.

This formula has been highly successful and has witnessed increasing interest from students and young researchers, to the point that at the last school in Caserta about 80 foreign students participated. About 30 among them also gave a contribution and the interaction was stimulating and rich. Similar, if not better, results are expected in the last COST 2102 Training School. The proceedings of the Caserta?s  school are  now a LNCS book, volume 6456, in press by Springer Verlag. Therefore, after the Dresden school, as usual, there will be a call for contributions and the outcome will be an International book.