Title
Using individual light rigs to control the perception of a virtual character's personality
Abstract
We investigate how lighting can be used to influence how the personality of virtual characters is perceived. We propose a character-centric lighting system composed of three dynamic lights that can be configured using an interactive editor. To study the effect of character-centric lighting on observers, we created four lighting configurations derived from the photography and film literature. A user study with 32 subjects shows that the lighting setups do influence the perception of the characters' personality. We found lighting effects with regard to the perception of dominance. Moreover, we found that the personality perception of female characters seems to change more easily than for male characters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_15
ACII (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
dynamic light,individual light rig,virtual character,personality perception,character-centric lighting system,female character,user study,film literature,interactive editor,male character,lighting setup,character-centric lighting
Social psychology,Communication,Psychology,Photography,Lighting system,Perception,Personality
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6974
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexis Heloir118018.54
Kerstin H. Kipp2865.18
Michael Kipp330118.37