Expressing emotions using animated text captions

  • Authors:
  • Raisa Rashid;Jonathan Aitken;Deborah I. Fels

  • Affiliations:
  • Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Due to limitations of conventional text-based closed captions, expressions of paralinguistic and emotive information contained in the dialogue of television and film content are often missing. We present a framework for enhancing captions that uses animation and a set of standard properties to express five basic emotions. Using an action research method, the framework was developed from a designer's interpretation and rendering of animated text captions for two content examples