Multimodal Cooperative Communication -- Multimodal Cooperative Communication -- 1: Multimodal Generation -- Generating Textual Diagrams and Diagrammatic Texts -- Pedro: Assessing Presentation Decodability on the Basis of Empirically Validated Models -- Improvise: Automated Generation of Animated Graphics for Coordinated Multimedia Presentations -- Multimodal Reference to Objects: An Empirical Approach -- 2: Multimodal Cooperation -- Augmenting and Executing SharedPlans for Multimodal Communication -- Cooperation and Flexibility in Multimodal Communication -- Communication and Manipulation Acts in a Collaborative Dialogue Model -- Relating Imperatives to Action -- 3: Multimodal Interpretation -- Interpretation of Gestures and Speech: A Practical Approach to Multimodal Communication -- Why Are Multimodal Systems so Difficult to Build? - About the Difference between Deictic Gestures and Direct Manipulation -- Multimodal Cooperative Resolution of Referential Expressions in the DenK System -- 4: Multimedia Platforms and Test Environments -- The IntelliMedia WorkBench-An Environment for Building Multimodal Systems -- A Unified Framework for Constructing Multimodal Experiments and Applications.