FrankenFolk: Distinctiveness and attractiveness of voice and motion

Authors

Jan Ondřej, Disney ResearchFollow
Cathy Ennis, Technological University DublinFollow
Niamh Merriman, Disney ResearchFollow
Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandFollow

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

Publication Details

PrePrint. Published version on ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2948066?casa_token=iQIHRzOznwYAAAAA%3AU3xmvMFT98w-aqBI2Kmle-GUe_xH_oxaaHS68rLphkbpRl9uv04LaA3cugypMHEwJVYqKOcjj_FxGSU

Abstract

It is common practice in movies and games to use different actors for the voice and body/face motion of a virtual character. What effect does the combination of these different modalities have on the perception of the viewer? In this article, we conduct a series of experiments to evaluate the distinctiveness and attractiveness of human motions (face and body) and voices. We also create combination characters called FrankenFolks, where we mix and match the voice, body motion, face motion, and avatar of different actors and ask which modality is most dominant when determining distinctiveness and attractiveness or whether the effects are cumulative.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/2948066

Recommended Citation

Jan Ondrej, Cathy Ennis, Niamh A. Merriman, and Carol O’Sullivan. 2016. FrankenFolk: Distinctiveness and attractiveness of voice and motion. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 13, 4, Article 20 (July 2016), 13 pages. DOI: 10.1145/2948066

Funder

Science Foundation Ireland