Title :
A Preliminary Study on Nonverbal Emotion Interaction of Virtual Characters in Cartoon Games
Author :
Liu, Zhen ; Chai, Yanjie
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Ningbo Univ., Ningbo, China
Abstract :
Children like cartoon games, a cartoon game for children should support more knowledge. Leaning nonverbal emotion interaction is a very important social skill for a child, how to animate nonverbal emotion interaction in a cartoon game is an interesting subject. Emotion cognitive structure of a virtual character is presented, emotion expression method is also proposed, a virtual character can express nonverbal emotion by body pose or facial expression, a demo system of nonverbal emotion interaction among three virtual characters is realized on a PC, the result shows that the method can provide emotional virtual characters for a cartoon game.
Keywords :
cognition; computer games; emotion recognition; face recognition; learning (artificial intelligence); pose estimation; virtual reality; body pose; cartoon games; demo system; emotion cognitive structure; emotion expression method; facial expression; learning; nonverbal emotion interaction; social skill; virtual characters; Automata; Computational modeling; Games; Geometry; Navigation; Pediatrics; Presses; Cartoon game; emotion interaction; facial expression; virtual character;
Conference_Titel :
Information Processing (ISIP), 2010 Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Qingdao
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8627-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISIP.2010.126
