Analysis of Emotional Gestures for the Generation of Expressive Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Agent

Authors:
Ginevra Castellano;Maurizio Mancini
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, UK and InfoMus Lab, DIST, University of Genova, Genova, Italy I-16145;InfoMus Lab, DIST, University of Genova, Genova, Italy I-16145 and LINC, IUT de Montreuil, University of Paris8, France
Venue:
Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a system capable of acquiring input from a video camera, processing information related to the expressivity of human movement and generating expressive copying behaviour of an Embodied Agent. We model a bi-directional communication between user and agent based on real-time analysis of movement expressivity and generation of expressive copying behaviour: while the user is moving, the agent responds with a gesture that exhibits the same expressive characteristics. An evaluation study based on a perceptual experiment with participants showed the effectiveness of the designed interaction.