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It is no secret that people are predisposed to form impressions of a person’s character, intentions, abilities, and social status based on nothing more than that person’s physical appearance. Although these impressions are often discounted, they serve a number of important social functions, including informing physical self-presentations. This article outlines some of the advantages that a facial trait perception system would offer social agents and presents a review of my research in modeling the trait impressions of the face using Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
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Brahnam, S. (2003). Person Perception for Social Agents: Research on Outfitting Social Agents with a Facial Trait Perception System. In: Truszkowski, W., Hinchey, M., Rouff, C. (eds) Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems. WRAC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2564. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45173-0_38
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