The Avatar's Gist: How to Transfer Affective Components From Dynamic Walking to Static Body Postures.

ABSTRACT: Dynamic virtual representations of the human being can communicate a broad range of affective states through body movements, thus effectively studying emotion perception. However, the possibility of modeling static body postures preserving affective information is still fundamental in a broad spectrum of experimental settings exploring time-locked cognitive processes. We propose a novel automatic method for creating virtual affective body postures starting from kinematics data. Exploiting body features related to postural cues and movement velocity, we transferred the affective components from dynamic walking to static body postures of male and female virtual avatars. Results of two online experiments showed that participants coherently judged different valence and arousal levels in the av

SUBMITTER: Presti P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9240741 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature