TY - GEN
T1 - Perception of emotional body expressions in narrative scenarios
AU - Volkova, Ekaterina P.
AU - Mohler, Betty J.
AU - Dodds, Trevor
AU - Tesch, Joachim
AU - Bülthoff, Heinrich H.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - emotion perception
KW - motion capture
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U2 - 10.1145/2492494.2501892
DO - 10.1145/2492494.2501892
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883672092
SN - 9781450322621
T3 - Proceedings - SAP 2013: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
SP - 135
BT - Proceedings - SAP 2013
T2 - 2013 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP 2013
Y2 - 22 August 2013 through 23 August 2013
ER -