A phenomenological study of facial expression animation

Robin J. S. Sloan; Brian Robinson; Fhionna R. Moore; Kenneth C. Scott-Brown; Malcolm Cook

A phenomenological study of facial expression animation

Robin J. S. Sloan, Brian Robinson, Fhionna R. Moore, Kenneth C. Scott-Brown, Malcolm Cook

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

This paper covers the findings of a qualitative study of facial animation, in which a cohort of student animators were tasked with producing spatiotemporally configured emotional expression animations. The timing of the upper and lower face regions within and between expressions such as happiness, sadness, and anger was explored by the animators, who sought to determine which configurations were the most and least effective in practice. The results showed that the student animators shared a degree of consensus when they discussed which configurations they found most authentic, and which configurations were the most clear. Configuration selection was dependent on the emotion or emotional transition being animated. These findings demonstrate that engagement with hand-key animators and practice-based research can generate results which would be of interest to the broader HCI community, in particular as regards the animation of interactive humanoid agents which exhibit believable changes in emotion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of HCI 2011 The 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction
Publisher	BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Pages	177-186
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 6 Jul 2011
Event	25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Health, wealth and happiness - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jul 2011 → 8 Jul 2011 Conference number: 25th

Conference

Conference	25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Abbreviated title	BCS-HCI '11
Country	United Kingdom
City	Newcastle Upon Tyne
Period	4/07/11 → 8/07/11

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Sloan, R. J. S., Robinson, B., Moore, F. R., Scott-Brown, K. C., & Cook, M. (2011). A phenomenological study of facial expression animation. In Proceedings of HCI 2011 The 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 177-186). BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/45083

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A phenomenological study of facial expression animation. / Sloan, Robin J. S.; Robinson, Brian; Moore, Fhionna R.; Scott-Brown, Kenneth C.; Cook, Malcolm.

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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