Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters

Rachel McDonnell; Sophie Jörg; Joanna McHugh; Fiona Newell; Carol O'Sullivan

doi:10.1145/1394281.1394294

Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters

Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Jörg, Joanna McHugh, Fiona Newell, Carol O'Sullivan

Psychology

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Abstract

In order to analyze the emotional content of motions portrayed by different characters, we created real and virtual replicas of an actor exhibiting six basic emotions: sadness, happiness, surprise, fear, anger and disgust. In addition to the video of the real actor, his actions were applied to five virtual body shapes: a low and high resolution virtual counterpart, a cartoon-like character, a wooden mannequin, and a zombie-like character (Figure 1). Participants were asked to rate the actions based on a list of 41 more complex emotions. We found that the perception of emotional actions is highly robust and to the most part independent of the character's body.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
Pages	67-73
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1394281.1394294
State	Published - 2008
Event	Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, APGV 2008 - Los Angeles, CA, United States Duration: Aug 9 2008 → Aug 10 2008

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Name	APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

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Conference	Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, APGV 2008
Country/Territory	United States
City	Los Angeles, CA
Period	8/9/08 → 8/10/08

Keywords

Motion-capture
Perception

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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McDonnell, R., Jörg, S., McHugh, J., Newell, F., & O'Sullivan, C. (2008). Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters. In APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (pp. 67-73). (APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization). https://doi.org/10.1145/1394281.1394294

Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters. / McDonnell, Rachel; Jörg, Sophie; McHugh, Joanna et al.
APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization. 2008. p. 67-73 (APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

McDonnell, R, Jörg, S, McHugh, J, Newell, F & O'Sullivan, C 2008, Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters. in APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization. APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, pp. 67-73, Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, APGV 2008, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 8/9/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1394281.1394294

McDonnell R, Jörg S, McHugh J, Newell F, O'Sullivan C. Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters. In APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization. 2008. p. 67-73. (APGV 2008 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization). doi: 10.1145/1394281.1394294

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