Preliminary Study on Influence of Motion Patterns by Kinetic Typography on Expressed Emotion

Abstract

Kinetic typography, which temporally modifies display attributes of text, is able to express implicative meaning, including emotion.In contrast to animation of geometrical figures and body motion of CG avatars, kinetic typography can convey specific messages by text itself. The effect of motion pattern on emotive expression, especially interaction effect between text and motion, has not been evaluated quantitatively. We thus conducted a basic investigation using elemental words of emotions and frequently-used motion patterns. The results showed that words and motion patterns can be each categorized into three groups and effects were varied according to a combination of a word group and a motion group.