Embodied Conversational Agents have been widely used to simulate dyadic interactions with users. We want to explore the context of expression of interpersonal attitudes in simulated group conversations. We are presenting a model that allows agents to exhibit a variety of nonverbal behaviors (e.g gestures, facial expressions, proxemics) depending on the interpersonal attitudes that they want to ...

This paper presents a dynamic biomechanical model of the face. It is implemented with a finite element method in the ANSYS software environment. A three layered mesh adapted to the description of the complex face muscles’ courses have been defined. Soft tissues are modelled using a hyperelastic law. The variations of muscle tissues’ mechanical properties associated with muscle activation are fu...

ResearcherS used two behavioral prompts to compare increases in safety belt use: a Click It or Ticket prompt or a Flash-for-Life prompt. Participants were 1,822 unbuckled drivers exiting two student parking lots of a large university. Research assistants identified unbuckled drivers, flashed one of the two prompts, and recorded whether drivers buckled after the prompt and the drivers' facial ex...

The affections of a person can be expressed by non-verbal methods such as facial expressions, gestures, postures and expressions from eyes. While implicit language like emotional metaphor is also an important way to express one’s affections. Different kinds of emotional metaphors in Chinese and their characteristics are proposed, including happiness, sadness, anger, fear and surprise. Experimen...

This paper describes features and the feature extraction processing which were applied for recognising gestures by artificial neural networks. The features were applied for two cases: time series of luminance rate images for hand gestures and time series of pure grey-scale images of the facial mouth region. A focus will be on the presentation and discussion of the application of 2dimensional Fo...

Affect is often expressed via non-verbal body language such as actions/gestures, which are vital indicators for human behaviors. Recent studies on recognition of fine-grained actions/gestures in monocular images have mainly focused modeling spatial configuration parts representing pose, human-objects interactions and variations local appearance. The results show that this a brittle approach sin...

Humans have the ability to convey an array of emotions through complex and rich touch gestures. However, it is not clear how these gestures can be reproduced interactive systems devices in a remote mediated communication context. In this article, we explore design space device-initiated for conveying with system reproducing collection human characteristics. For purpose, control robotic arm fore...

The article is devoted to the definition of peculiarities metaphorization phraseological units denote inner world a person in Ukrainian language. main purpose which and English languages.The object investigation expressing feelings emotions (emotional unit).The methodology study was based on cognitive-pragmatic structural approaches, descriptive method used work, made it possible single out stu...

Introduction: Today, facial bio-potential signals are employed in many human-machine interface applications for enhancing and empowering the rehabilitation process. The main point to achieve that goal is to record appropriate bioelectric signals from the human face by placing and configuring electrodes over it in the right way. In this paper, heuristic geometrical position and configuration of ...

Emotional information can be conveyed by various means of communication, such as propositional content, speech intonation, facial expression, and gestures. Prior studies have demonstrated that inputs from one modality can alter perception in another modality. To evaluate the impact of emotional intonation on ratings of emotional faces, a behavioral study first was carried out. Second, functiona...