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    Emotion Capture: Emotionally Expressive Characters for Games


    Ennis, Cathy, Hoyet, Ludovic, Egges, Arjan and McDonnell, Rachel (2013) Emotion Capture: Emotionally Expressive Characters for Games. Proceedings of MIG'13: Motion in Games. pp. 56-60.

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    Abstract

    It has been shown that humans are sensitive to the portrayal of emotions for virtual characters. However, previous work in this area has often examined this sensitivity using extreme examples of facial or body animation. Less is known about how attuned people are at recognizing emotions as they are expressed during conversational communication. In order to determine whether body or facial motion is a better indicator for emotional expression for game characters, we conduct a perceptual experiment using synchronized full-body and facial motion-capture data. We find that people can recognize emotions from either modality alone, but combining facial and body motion is preferable in order to create more expressive characters.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: perception; emotion; animation;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
    Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
    Item ID: 20328
    Identification Number: 10.1145/2522628.2522633
    Depositing User: IR Editor
    Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2025 13:21
    Journal or Publication Title: Proceedings of MIG'13: Motion in Games
    Publisher: ACM Digital Library
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20328
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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