Verification of expressiveness of procedural parameters for generating emotional motions

Abstract

Body movements are crucial for emotion expression of a virtual agent. However, the perception of expressiveness of an animation has always been a subjective matter. Research in psychology has asked professional actors to perform emotional motions to study how body gestures deliver emotions [2]. In this work, we aim to design an animation system that can generate human body motions in a more systematic manner and then study the expressiveness of the generated animation as a preceding step for the study of the relation between motion and emotion. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.