Generation and visualization of emotional states in virtual characters

This paper presents art affective model that determines the emotional state of a character according to the personality traits and the experienced emotions. We consider an emotional state as tire layer between personality and emotion. The proposed affective model offers a mapping between emotions and emotional states. To evidence emotional states of a virtual character; We can attribute them facial expressions based oil their associated emotions. Facial expressions for intermediate emotions are generated automatically from expressions for universal emotions. The experiments show coherent emotional states produced by a simulated story. They also present how tire corresponding emotions were represented through dynamic and static facial expressions. Finally, the obtained results demonstrate tire satisfactory recognition by a group of people unfamiliar with tire work described. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.