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The present study aimed at investigating how emotion affect the kinematic aspect of human walking. The gaits of eight professional actors expressing different types of emotions (neutral, joy, anger, sadness and fear) during walking were recorded and analyzed in the sagittal plane. We show both step-related behavioural changes (in terms of step length, speed,etc.) that are common to different emotions and emotion-specific body configuration changes (mainly at the level of the upper body posture) during emotional gaits. Since the overall speed of walking is another major variant in walking, natural walking at different speeds were recorded in another session for a control.
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Hicheur, H., Kadone, H., Grèzes, J., Berthoz, A. (2013). The Combined Role of Motion-Related Cues and Upper Body Posture for the Expression of Emotions during Human Walking. In: Mombaur, K., Berns, K. (eds) Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Bipedal Walking. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36368-9_6
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