Perception of emotional body expressions in narrative scenarios

Ekaterina P. Volkova, Betty J. Mohler, Trevor Dodds, Joachim Tesch, Heinrich H. Bülthoff

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    Abstract

    People use body motion to express and recognise emotions. We investigated whether emotional body expressions can be recognised when they are recorded during natural narration, where actors freely express the emotional colouring of a story told. We then took only the upper body motion trajectories and presented them to participants in the form of animated stick figures. The observers were asked to categorise the emotions expressed in short motion sequences. The results show that recognition level of eleven emotions shown via upper body is significantly above chance level and the responses to motion sequences are consistent across observers.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - SAP 2013
    Subtitle of host publicationACM Symposium on Applied Perception
    Pages135
    Number of pages1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    Event2013 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP 2013 - Dublin, Ireland
    Duration: 2013 Aug 222013 Aug 23

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - SAP 2013: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

    Other

    Other2013 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP 2013
    Country/TerritoryIreland
    CityDublin
    Period13/8/2213/8/23

    Keywords

    • emotion perception
    • motion capture

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software

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