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Extracting emotion data from motion data

Is it possible to detect someone’s emotions by studying their motion? Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Kristian Nymoen discuss their methods.

As we have seen in the previous videos, there are strong links between motion and emotion in music.

But if motion and emotion are so closely connected, is it possible to detect someone’s emotions by studying their motion?

What do you think? Is it possible to identify emotion from motion? How are the two related?

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