Emotion capture based on body postures and movements

TL;DR

This paper explores how body postures and movements can be used to design interactive systems that recognize human emotions, reviewing literature and identifying key movement features for emotion detection.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for capturing and analyzing body movements to recognize human emotions in interactive systems.

Findings

Identified key movement features linked to specific emotions

Reviewed existing approaches to emotion characterization

Proposed a preliminary system for emotion recognition based on body movements

Abstract

In this paper we present a preliminary study for designing interactive systems that are sensible to human emotions based on the body movements. To do so, we first review the literature on the various approaches for defining and characterizing human emotions. After justifying the adopted characterization space for emotions, we then focus on the movement characteristics that must be captured by the system for being able to recognize the human emotions.