Effects of damping head movement and facial expression in dyadic conversation using real - time facial expression tracking and synthesized avatars

Boker, Steven M., Cohn, Jeffrey F., Theobald, Barry-John, Matthews, Iain, Brick, Timothy R. and Spies, Jeffrey R. (2009) Effects of damping head movement and facial expression in dyadic conversation using real - time facial expression tracking and synthesized avatars. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. pp. 3485-3495. ISSN 1471-2970

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Abstract

When people speak with one another, they tend to adapt their head movements and facial expressions in response to each others' head movements and facial expressions. We present an experiment in which confederates' head movements and facial expressions were motion tracked during videoconference conversations, an avatar face was reconstructed in real time, and naive participants spoke with the avatar face. No naive participant guessed that the computer generated face was not video. Confederates' facial expressions, vocal inflections and head movements were attenuated at 1 min intervals in a fully crossed experimental design. Attenuated head movements led to increased head nods and lateral head turns, and attenuated facial expressions led to increased head nodding in both naive participants and confederates. Together, these results are consistent with a hypothesis that the dynamics of head movements in dyadicconversation include a shared equilibrium. Although both conversational partners were blind to the manipulation, when apparent head movement of one conversant was atte

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Interactive Graphics and Audio
Depositing User: Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2011 16:29
Last Modified: 22 Apr 2023 00:39
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/21848
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0152

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