Towards ECA's animation of expressive complex behaviour

  • Authors:

  • Izidor Mlakar;Matej Rojc

  • Affiliations:

  • Roboti c.s. d.o.o, Slovenia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • COST'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multimodal interfaces supporting ECAs enable the development of novel concepts regarding human-machine interaction interfaces and provide several communication channels such as: natural speech, facial expression, and different body gestures. This paper presents the synthesis of expressive behaviour within the realm of affective computing. By providing descriptions of different expressive parameters (e.g. temporal, spatial, power, and different degrees of fluidity) and the context of unplanned behaviour, it addresses the synthesis of expressive behaviour by enabling the ECA to visualize complex human-like body movements (e.g. expressions, emotional speech, hand and head gestures, gaze and complex emotions). Movements performed by our ECA EVA are reactive, not require extensive planning phases, and can be presented hieratically as a set of different events. The animation concepts prevent the synthesis of unnatural movements even when two or more behavioural events influence the same segments of the body (e.g. speech with different facial expressions).