Is the Perceived Comfort With CG Characters Increasing With Their Novelty?

Perception of Charisma, Comfort, Micro and Macro Expressions in Computer Graphics Characters

“…One possible explanation is that positive expressions may contain more evident movements, i.e., involving more regions of the face, making their identification easier. In addition, regarding H0 3 , the perceptions of comfort and charisma presented high values, showing that the female character cartoon corresponds to what was presented by Araujo et al [18].…”

“…Regarding H0 3 , firstly, as predicted in the work by Araujo et al [17], [18], our character, female and unrealistic, had values above 3 on the 5-Likert Scales (above average), that is, the character was considered charismatic and did not generate discomfort for the evaluated subjects. Regarding perceived comfort and charisma, we found some aspects that can be discussed: i) in most significant results about videos that started with positive macro expressions, people felt more comfortable and perceived more charisma in the character; ii) in most cases, people felt more comfortable and perceived more charisma in the characters in videos that had positive macro expressions followed by negative micro expressions than videos that had negative macro expressions followed by positive micro expressions; iii) looking at the averages in Table VIII, people felt more comfortable and perceived more charisma in the character in videos that started with macro positive expressions, especially in videos that had macro and micro positive expressions.…”

“…The 3d character chosen in this work is available at https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/917863. As shown in the work by Araujo et al [17], [18], cartoon and female (the character used in the work of Queiroz et al [2] was also female) characters tend to be more comfortable and charismatic to people. Therefore, we chose a female cartoon character to evaluate this hypothesis in relation to our character, independently if the micro or macro expressions are correctly identified.…”

“…In Riggio's work [16], the author also reported that charismatic individuals are lively, charged with emotion, and full of life. Furthermore, there are a recent interest in the studies of comfort and charisma in CG characters, as presented by V. Araujo et al [17] and [18]. In the first work, authors study the influence of gender on the perception of charisma and comfort in CG characters, while in the other study, authors analyse the impact of time in perceived comfort in relation to the CG characters between 2012 and 2020.…”

The emotions effect on a virtual characters design–A student perspective analysis

“…The CG characters' degree of realism also depends on the texture and color treatment applied to them, hence, the use of light and volume illusion (Thomas and Johnston, 1997). Furthermore, regarding realism degrees, Kätsyri et al proved that semi-realistic characters tended to fall into the valley (Kätsyri et al, 2016), depending on how their degree of realism is being represented (realistic or cartoon), CG characters could lay in the valley or not (Araujo et al, 2022). Therefore, we avoid using character designs with any realistic degree.…”