A working setup that focuses on dimensional prediction of emotions from spontaneous conversational head gestures. It maps the amount and direction of head motion, and occurrences of head nods and shakes into

arousal, expectation, intensity, power and valence level of the observed

subject as there has been virtually no research bearing on this topic.

Preliminary experiments show that it is possible to automatically predict

emotions in terms of these five dimensions (arousal, expectation, intensity,

power and valence) from conversational head gestures. Dimensional

and continuous emotion prediction from spontaneous head gestures has

been integrated in the SEMAINE project [