FACETOUCH: AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO FEEL SENSATION OF AVATAR EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION THROUGH SENSE OF TOUCH AND FACIAL APPEARANCE

摘要

Current and existing avatars are only able to express theirrnemotional expressions only by using facial animation,rngesture and voice. Yet, only few researchers successfullyrncombined haptic tactile with human emotion expression.rnIn this paper, we present an avatar in a creative way thatrncan gain user attention while they play game and userncomputer. Our proposed technique is achieved throughrncombination of visual sense and systematic mapping ofrnsense of touch. The mapping procedure is developed byrnsystemically map the emotion layer into color spectrumrnbased on the standard color emotion theories. To provernour solution, we benchmark our proposed techniquernprototype with existing system like Alfred. From thernconducted experiment, we found that 57% respondentsrnfeel strong expression of virtual head emotion expressionrnwhen dedicated haptic device stimulates their sensoryrnnerve. Using our design solution, we can see thatrnpsychological signal can be adapted with vibrationrncharacteristic.