Title
Machine interpretation of emotion: Design of a memory-based expert system for interpreting facial expressions in terms of signaled emotions
Abstract
As a first step in involving user emotion in human-computer interaction, a memory-based expert system (JANUS; Kearney, 1991) was designed to interpret facial expression in terms of the signaled emotion. Anticipating that a VDU-mounted camera will eventually supply face parameters automatically, JANUS now accepts manually made measurements on a digitized full-face photograph and returns emotion labels used by college students. An intermediate representation in terms of face actions (e.g., mouth open) is also used. Production rules convert the geometry into these. A dynamic memory (Kolodner, 1984; Schank, 1982) interprets the face actions in terms of emotion labels. The memory is dynamic in the sense that new emotion labels can be learned with experience. A prototype system has been implemented on a Sun 2120 system using POPLOG. Validation studies on the prototype suggest that the interpretations achieved are generally consistent with those of college students without formal instruction in emotion signals.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1016/0364-0213(93)90005-S
Cognitive Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
facial expression,expert system
Social psychology,Emotionality,Expert system,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Facial expression,Poplog,Intermediate language,Memoria,Cognition,Perception
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
4
0364-0213
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
3.34
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Garrett D. Kearney1153.34
Sati McKenzie2204.05