Unpleasantness of animated characters corresponds to increased viewer attention to faces

Proceedings - SAP 2013: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 35-40

  Carter, Elizabeth J ^a   Mahler, Moshe ^b   Hodgins, Jessica K ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

eye tracking; facial animation; perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; CHARACTER ANIMATION; EYE-TRACKING; FACIAL ANIMATION; MOTION CAPTURE DATA; TELEVISION PROGRAMS; TIME-CORRELATED; VISUAL COMPLEXITY;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SURVEYS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

ANIMATION;

EID: 84883733729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492494.2502059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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