ArticleScientific reports2022
Correlated expression of the body, face, and voice during character portrayal in actors.
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- The impact of acting training on emotion recognition and expression: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Development and Validation of a Multimodal Emotion Recognition Ability Test Based on the Chinese Cultural Context.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Integrating gestalt therapeutic techniques enhances character portrayal in undergraduate acting students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Unifying the gestural and the vocal in the evolution of culture, the arts, and the brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- IMAGINE Personalities: Augmenting Digital Character Workflows Using Motion Capture, Wearable Sensors, and Live Coding.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Role playing in human evolution: from life to art, and everything in between.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Human-Machine Interaction via Dual Modes of Voice and Gesture Enabled by Triboelectric Nanogenerator and Machine Learning.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2023Article
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Abstract
Actors are required to engage in multimodal modulations of their body, face, and voice in order to create a holistic portrayal of a character during performance. We present here the first trimodal analysis, to our knowledge, of the process of character portrayal in professional actors. The actors portrayed a series of stock characters (e.g., king, bully) that were organized according to a predictive scheme based on the two orthogonal personality dimensions of assertiveness and cooperativeness. We used 3D motion capture technology to analyze the relative expansion/contraction of 6 body segments across the head, torso, arms, and hands. We compared this with previous results for these portrayals for 4 segments of facial expression and the vocal parameters of pitch and loudness. The results demonstrated significant cross-modal correlations for character assertiveness (but not cooperativeness), as manifested collectively in a straightening of the head and torso, expansion of the arms and hands, lowering of the jaw, and a rise in vocal pitch and loudness. These results demonstrate what communication theorists refer to as "multichannel reinforcement". We discuss this reinforcement in light of both acting theories and theories of human communication more generally.
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