The Features People Use to Recognize Human Movement Style

Observation of human movement informs a variety of person properties. However, it is unclear how this understanding of person properties is derived from the complex visual stimulus of human movement. I address this topic by first reviewing the literature on the visual perception of human movement and then discussing work that has explored the features used to discriminate between different styles of movement. This discussion includes work on quantifying human performance at style recognition, exaggeration of human movement and finally experimental derivation of a feature space to represent human emotion.

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