Understanding Facial Expressions in Communication: Cross-cultural and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

by Manas K. Mandal (Editor), Avinash Awasthi (Editor)

This important volume provides a holistic understanding of the cultural, psychological, neurological and biological elements involved in human facial expressions and of computational models in the analyses of expressions. It includes methodological and technical discussions by leading scholars across the world on the subject. Automated and manual analysis of facial expressions, involving cultural, gender, age and other variables, is a growing and important area of research with important implications for cross-cultural interaction and communication of emotion, including security and clinical studies. This volume also provides a broad framework for the understanding of facial expressions of emotion with inputs drawn from the behavioural sciences, computational sciences and neurosciences.

298 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 10, 2014

Reviews

[EliG · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book included some incredibly interesting topics. I wish they would've dug deeper and wider on the aspect of cross-cultural challenges and opportunities in emotion-recognition, some of the arguments seemed to have a somewhat transient and ethnocentric hue. However, I do recognize that this was published in 2015, so I assume the researchers on the subject by now have included a more representative mix of voices, faces and cultures.