Concurrence of Facial and Bodily Expression: A Feasibility Study

This paper discusses the challenges of studying affective interactions and reviews a pilot study designed to test the feasibility of studying the concurrence of facial and bodily expression. The study had three goals. First, evaluate the use of our emotion elicitation method. Second, determine if a specialized head mount for a face camera worn by participants interfered with performance. Third, determine if facial expression occurred without social interaction. The emotion elicitation method was successful for four target emotions (anger, sad, content, and joy). The specialized head mount did not interfere with emotion elicitation and the subjects displayed evidence of facial expression.