Subjective tests with animated talking faces: What are they good for?

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksPicture Coding Symposium '99
ErscheinungsortDavis
Seiten439-442
Seitenumfang4
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1999
Extern publiziertJa
VeranstaltungPicture Coding Symposium 1999 - Portland, USA / Vereinigte Staaten
Dauer: 21 Apr. 199923 Apr. 1999

Abstract

Computer animation of human faces has been an active research area for a long time, resulting in a multitude of facial models and several animation systems. Current interest for this technology is clearly shown by its inclusion in the MPEG-4 standard. However, it is less clear what the actual applications of Facial Animation (FA) will be. We have therefore undertaken experiments on 190 subjects in order to explore the benefits of FA. Part of the experiment was aimed at exploring the objective benefits, i.e. to see if FA can help users to perform certain tasks more accurately or efficiently. The other part of the experiment was aimed at more subjective benefits, like raising the level of appeal to the user, gaining more users' interest, filling in the waiting times for server access so the users do not get bored. We present the experiment design and the results. The results show that FA aids users in understanding spoken numbers in noisy conditions (error rates drop from 16% to 8%); that it can effectively fill the waiting times and make them more acceptable to the user; and that it makes services more attractive to the users, particularly when they compare directly the same service with or without the FA.

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Subjective tests with animated talking faces: What are they good for? / Ostermann, Jörn; Millen, David; Pandzic, Igor S.
Picture Coding Symposium '99 . Davis, 1999. S. 439-442.

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Ostermann, J, Millen, D & Pandzic, IS 1999, Subjective tests with animated talking faces: What are they good for? in Picture Coding Symposium '99 . Davis, S. 439-442, Picture Coding Symposium 1999, Portland, Oregon, USA / Vereinigte Staaten, 21 Apr. 1999.
Ostermann, J., Millen, D., & Pandzic, I. S. (1999). Subjective tests with animated talking faces: What are they good for? In Picture Coding Symposium '99 (S. 439-442).
Ostermann J, Millen D, Pandzic IS. Subjective tests with animated talking faces: What are they good for? in Picture Coding Symposium '99 . Davis. 1999. S. 439-442
Ostermann, Jörn ; Millen, David ; Pandzic, Igor S. / Subjective tests with animated talking faces : What are they good for?. Picture Coding Symposium '99 . Davis, 1999. S. 439-442
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