Recognizing bodily expression of affect in user tests

  • Authors:
  • Marco Pasch;Monica Landoni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland;University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ACII'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Affective computing and intelligent interaction - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We describe our planned research in using affective feedback from body movement and posture to recognize affective states of users. Bodily expression of affect has received far less attention in research than facial expression. The aim of our research is to further investigate how affective states are communicated through bodily expression and to develop an evaluation method for assessing affective states of video gamers based on this knowledge. Current motion capture systems are often intrusive to the user and restricted to lab environments, which results in biasing user experience. We propose a nonintrusive recognition system for bodily expression of affect in a video game context, which can be deployed in the wild.