From cartoons to robots part 2: Facial regions as cues to recognize emotions

This paper reports a preliminary result of a cross-cultural study on the facial regions as cues to recognize virtual agents´ facial expressions. We believe providing research results on the perception of cartoonish virtual agents´ facial expressions to HRI research community is meaningful in order to minimize the effort to develop robot´s facial expressions. The result implies Japanese weighed facial cues more heavily in the eye regions than Hungarians, who weighed facial cues more heavily in the mouth region than Japanese.