Human perception of laughter from context-free whole body motion dynamic stimuli

Proceedings - 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 306-311

  McKeown, Gary ^a   Curran, William ^a   Kane, Denise ^a   McCahon, Rebecca ^a   Griffin, Harry J ^b   McLoughlin, Ciaran ^b   Bianchi Berthouze, Nadia ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body movement; Laughter; Laughter perception; Motion capture; Personality

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENTS; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; LAUGHTER; MOTION CAPTURE; PERSONALITY; WHOLE-BODY MOTION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84893244443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACII.2013.57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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