Attributing Emotion to Static Body Postures: Recognition Accuracy, Confusions, and Viewpoint Dependence

By Mark C. Coulson. 2004

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Does Body Movement Engage You More in Digital Game Play? and Why? (2007, background): “In recent years, however, this idea has been questioned by psychology studies showing body posture to be a very good indicator for certain categories of emotions, see [16-19]) for examples.”
What is biological motion?: Definition, stimuli and paradigms (2012, background): “Facing direction, actions, and probably even actor specifications such as gender or emotion can be retrieved from still stick figures (Coulson, 2004).”
Emotional Behaviors, Emotivational Goals, Emotion Strategies: Multiple Levels of Organization Integrate Variable and Consistent Responses (2011, background): “The expressive component encompasses facial, vocal, and postural changes, such as in anger, lowered brows and squarish mouth (see Ekman, 2003); loud, fast, vocalizations increasing in pitch (Green, Whitney, & Gustafson, 2010); and chest bent forward with head relatively erect (Coulson, 2004).”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “Although compassion includes gazing and leaning toward others (Eisenberg, Fabes, et al., 1988; Eisenberg, McCreath, & Ahn, 1988; Guthrie et al., 1997), sadness involves physical withdrawal (Shaver et al., 1987), averted gaze (Adams & Kleck, 2005), and slumped posture (Coulson, 2004).”
Social signal processing: Survey of an emerging domain (2009, background): “For example the works in [27][198] investigated perception and display of body postures relevant to basic emotions including happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, disgust, and anger, while the studies in [72][152] investigated bodily expressions of felt and recognized basic emotions as visible in spec”
Short-term emotion assessment in a recall paradigm (2009, background): “, 2001; Fasel and Luettin, 2003), speech (Cowie, 2000; Ververidis and Kotropoulos, 2006), postures (Coulson, 2004; Kapoor et al., 2007) and physiological signals (see Section 2).”
Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations (2010, neutral): “Humans use a range of cues to communicate emotions, including vocalizations, facial expressions, and posture (2 – 4).”
Human computing and machine understanding of human behavior: a survey (2006, background): “Basic research also provides evidence that observers tend to be accurate in decoding some negative basic emotions like anger and sadness from static body postures [12] and that gestures like head inclination, face touching, and shifting posture often accompany social affective states like shame and ”
Methodology for Assessing Bodily Expression of Emotion (2010, background): “Anger, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise have been associated with specific body postures ( Coulson 2004 ).”
Affect Detection: An Interdisciplinary Review of Models, Methods, and Their Applications (2010, background): “of which makes posture a potentially ideal affective communicative channel [95], [96].”
Affective Body Expression Perception and Recognition: A Survey (2013, background): “Typically, the core elements of body expressions for sadness are the arms straight down, close to the side of the body [100], [102], [80], [91].”
Bodily Communication of Emotion: Evidence for Extrafacial Behavioral Expressions and Available Coding Systems (2019, background): “…as communicating joy or happiness: upwards bodily movement (i.e., with the arms, trunk, or shoulders), upwards head tilt, illustrative gestures, opening and closing the hands, expansive bodily displays, and jumping (e.g., Atkinson et al., 2004; Coulson, 2004; de Meijer, 1989; see Table 1).”
Emotion Recognition from Body Expressions with a Neural Network Architecture (2017, background): “These joints were selected based on their inﬂuence in conveying emotions from body motion [5].”
Bi-modal emotion recognition from expressive face and body gestures (2007, methodology): “In his paper [8], Coulson presented experimental results on attribution of 6 emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise) to static body postures by using computer-generated figures.”
Emotion, Embodiment, and Mirror Neurons in Dance/Movement Therapy: A Connection Across Disciplines (2008, background): “Studies on body posture and emotion have used anywhere from four to seven basic emotions, including emotions in addition to the original six, such as shame, pride, and confusion (see Coulson, 2004; De Silva & Bianchi-Berthouze, 2004; Keltner & Shiota, 2003; Pitterman & Nowicki, 2004; Schouwstra & ”