Perception de la communication expressive : Icônes Gestuelles statiques vs. dynamiques du Feeling of Thinking

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Most studies concerning expressive communication concentrate on (visual/vocal/auditory) expressions of the speaker while he is talking. But information about what a speaker is doing while he is not talking is also important. We first tried to build an empirical methodology of ethograms for information about the (non)talker's mental or affective states, that we called 'Feeling of Thinking'. Then we confronted some of the identified Gestural Icons with the perceptual validation of their relevance, in an association task with subject's self-annotation labels. We tested : (1) the static form of the Icons and their dynamic one; (2) three presentation conditions: whole face, upper part of the face only and lower part of the face only. The Icons were globally well identified, and can consequently be considered as relevant. Moreover, our results showed the importance of the dynamism for the 'Feeling of Thinking' perception and called additivity of the upper and lower parts of the face in terms of affective information into question.