The 4th European and 7th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication (MMSYM 2016), Copenhagen 29-30 September 2016: Extended Abstracts Adam Kendon (Invited speaker). Semiotic and Modality Diversity in Languaging: Implications for Some Debates about Language Origins Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Stefano Lanzini and Ali Attaran. Multimodal health communication in two cultures – A comparison of Swedish and Malaysian Youtube videos Keith Curtis, Gareth Jf Jones and Nick Campbell. Identification of Emphasised Regions in Audio- Visual Presentations Johan Frid, Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Malin Svensson Lundmark and David House. Towards classification of head movements in audiovisual recordings of read news Kevin El Haddad and Emer Gilmartin, Hüseyin Çakmak1, Stéphane Dupont, Thierry Dutoit, Nick Campbell. Preliminary Studies in Laughter and Smile Patterns in Dyadic Conversation for HCI Applications Jennifer Gerwing. Physicians’ and patients’ use of body-oriented gestures in primary care consultations Jacqueline Hemminghaus and Stefan Kopp. Adaptive Behavior Generation for Multimodal Child- Robot-Interaction Marieke Hoetjes. Gestures become more informative when communication is unsuccessful Annelies Jehoul, Geert Brône and Kurt Feyaerts. Gaze distribution during fillers: empirical data on the difference between Dutch ‘euh’ and ‘euhm’ Mikael Jensen and Linnea Moreira Emanuelsson. Kinesic code-switching among bi-culturals: A multimodal analysis Kristiina Jokinen and Katri Hiovan. Laughing and co-construction of common ground in human conversations Bart Jongejan, Patrizia Paggio and Costanza Navarretta. Automatic recognition of head movements using velocity, acceleration and jerk