Significance of Bodily Movement for Detection and Analysis of Emotions: a Review

Through this paper we are trying to convey that there is a need of unified body language framework so that we can infer and reveal the underlying emotions. We can apply a verity of psychology inspired body language features to describe bodily emotion through posture. With the advancement in Affective Computing there is progress in the field of facial, vocal and physiological emotion detection. Humans communicate primarily through bodily movements. But the detection of emotion through the body is limited and the development in this field is comparatively down because of the absence of the proper equipments and coding scheme’s, dedicatedly designed and prepared for bodily movement expression. A lot of researchers criticize to work on body expressions. However, work-done by the psychologist’s provide knowledge and shows the bright side by presenting that the emotions shown by the body are as accurate as we get them from face. Recent researches in automatic bodily emotion detection have also shown promising results. The primary purpose of this review is to provide positive view and prepare a platform for emotion detection using bodily emotions. We will look at Laban Movement Analysis as a prominent and a promising method for movement representation in this field.