this book constitutes the peer-reviewed post-conference proceedings of the second cost action 2102 international conference on cross-modal analysis of speech, gestures,gaze and facial expressions held in prague, czech republic during october 15-18, 2008. the 39 peer-reviewed papers presented are organized in three sections. the first section €œemotion and ict,€ deals with themes related to the crossfertilization between studies on ict practices of use and cross-modal analysis of verbal and nonverbal communication. the second section, €œverbal and nonverbal features of computational phonetics,€ presents original studies devoted to the modelling of verbal and nonverbal phonetics. the third section, €œalgorithmic and theoretical analysis of multimodal interfaces,€ presents theoretical and practical implementations of original studies devoted to the analysis of speech, gestures, face and head movements as well as to learning issues in human€“computer interaction and to algorithmic solutions for noise environments in human€“machine exchanges.