Animating expressive characters for social interaction / edited by Lola Cañamero, Ruth Aylett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aylett, Ruth, 1951-

Cañamero, Lola.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 74.

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 296 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given emotional displays that are believable and acceptable to humans? This is the central question of Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. The ability to express and recognize emotions is a fundamental aspect of social interaction. Not only is it a central research question, it has been explored in animated films, dance, and other expressive arts for a much longer period. This book is unique in presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to animation in its broadest sense: from internal mechanisms to external displays, not only from a graphical perspective, but more generally examining how to give characters an “anima”, so that they appear as life-like entities and social partners to humans. (Series B)

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

About the editors

List of contributors

Introduction

1. Social emotions

2. Fabricating fictions using social role

3. What's in a robot's smile? The many meanings of positive facial display

4. Facial expressions in social interactions: Beyond basic emotions

5. Expressing emotion through body movement: A component process approach

6. Affective bodies for affective interactions

7. Animating affective robots for social interaction

8. Dynamic models of multiple emotion activation

9. Exercises in style for virtual humans

10. Expressive characters in anti-bullying education

11. Psychological and social effects to elderly people by robot-assisted activity

12. Designing avatars for social interactions

13. Applying socio-psychological concepts of cognitive consistency to negotiation dialog scenarios with embodied conversational characters

14. Semi-autonomous avatars: A new direction for expressive user embodiment

15. The Butterfly effect: Dancing with real and virtual expressive characters

16. The robot and the baby

Subject index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104497

9781282104495

1282104497

9789027289834

9027289832

OCLC:

567922066