A Database of Full Body Virtual Interactions Annotated with Expressivity Scores

Virginie Demulier (1) , Elisabetta Bevacqua (2) , Tom Giraud (1) , Pamela Carreno-Medrano (3) , Brice Isableu (4) , Sylvie Gibet (3) , Pierre de Loor (2) , Jean-Claude Martin (1) , Florian Focone (1)

1 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
2 Lab-STICC_ENIB_CID_IHSEV
3 EXPRESSION - Expressiveness in Human Centered Data/Media
4 CIAMS - Complexité, Innovation, Activités Motrices et Sportives

Recent technologies enable the exploitation of full body expressions in applications such as interactive arts but are still limited in terms of dyadic subtle interaction patterns. Our project aims at full body expressive interactions between a user and an autonomous virtual agent. The currently available databases do not contain full body expressivity and interaction patterns via avatars. In this paper, we describe a protocol defined to collect a database to study expressive full-body dyadic interactions. We detail the coding scheme for manually annotating the collected videos. Reliability measures for global annotations of expressivity and interaction are also provided.

Mots clés: database; gesture; bodily interaction; expressivity; experimental protocol; coding scheme

Domaines: Informatique

Virginie Demulier, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Tom Giraud, Pamela Carreno-Medrano, Brice Isableu, et al.. A Database of Full Body Virtual Interactions Annotated with Expressivity Scores. LREC 2014 - Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland. pp.3505-3510. ⟨hal-01367912⟩