Are There Any Body-movement Differences between Women and Men When They Laugh?

Ahmad Hammoudeh, Antoine Maiorca, Stéphane Dupont, Thierry Dutoit

Abstract
Smiling differences between men and women have been studied in psychology. Women smile more than men although the expressiveness of women is not universally more across all facial actions. There are also body movement differences between women and men. For example, more open-body postures were reported for men, but are there any body-movement differences between men and women when they laugh? To investigate this question, we study body-movement signals extracted from recorded laughter videos using a deep learning pose estimation model. Initial results showed a higher Fourier Transform amplitude of thorax and shoulder movements for females while males had a higher Fourier transform amplitude of Elbow movement. The differences were not limited to a small frequency range but covered most of the frequency spectrum. However, further investigations are still needed.
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2022.smila-1.9
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Smiling and Laughter across Contexts and the Life-span within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Chiara Mazzocconi, Kevin El Haddad, Catherine Pelachaud, Gary McKeown
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SmiLa
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European Language Resources Association
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30–31
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Ahmad Hammoudeh, Antoine Maiorca, Stéphane Dupont, and Thierry Dutoit. 2022. Are There Any Body-movement Differences between Women and Men When They Laugh?. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Smiling and Laughter across Contexts and the Life-span within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 30–31, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Are There Any Body-movement Differences between Women and Men When They Laugh? (Hammoudeh et al., SmiLa 2022)
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