TY - GEN ID - cogprints2519 UR - http://cogprints.org/2519/ A1 - Nakata, Toru Y1 - 2002/// N2 - An automatic choreography method to generate lifelike body movements is proposed. This method is based on somatics theories that are conventionally used to evaluate human?s psychological and developmental states by analyzing the body movement. The idea of this paper is to use the theories in the inverse way: to facilitate generation of artificial body movements that are plausible regarding evolutionary, developmental and emotional states of robots or other non-living movers. This paper reviews somatic theories and describes a strategy for implementations of automatic body movement generation. In addition, a psychological experiment is reported to verify expression ability on body movement rhythm. This method facilitates to choreographing body movement of humanoids, animal-shaped robots, and computer graphics characters in video games. PB - Lund University Cognitive Studies KW - automatic choreography KW - generation of lif-like movement KW - somatics KW - emotional expression KW - nonverbal communication TI - Generation of Whole-Body Expressive Movement Based on Somatical Theories SP - 105 AV - public EP - 114 ER -