Cross-cultural differences in recognizing affect from body posture

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1371-1389

  Kleinsmith, Andrea ^a   De Silva, P Ravindra ^a   Bianchi Berthouze, Nadia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective body postures; Affective communication; Embodied animated agents; Emotion nuances; Intercultural differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AFFECTIVE BODY POSTURES; AFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; ANIMATED AGENTS; BODY POSTURE; EMBODIED ANIMATED AGENTS; EMOTION NUANCES; INTERCULTURAL DIFFERENCES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 33750720309     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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