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Learning human emotion from body gesture is to estimate the emotional state of a person based on his or her body gesture. Although the perception of human emotion is commonly linked with facial expression and voice, human beings can express and interpret others’ emotional states from body gesture (or bodily expression) such as body movement, posture, and gesture. Human affective states are actually conveyed by a set of nonverbal cues including facial expression, body movement and posture, gesture, tone of voice, speaking style, touching behaviors, and so on; the combination of these cues yields an overall emotional display, in which body gesture plays a vital role. Psychological studies suggest that the perception of facial expression is strongly influenced by the concurrently presented body language. Automatic recognition of affective body gesture is an emerging topic in affective computing.
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Shan, C. (2012). Learning Human Emotion from Body Gesture. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1905
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