Giving Emotions to Characters Using Comic Symbols

The purpose of this study is the realization of a digital picture book system. This desired system would use comic symbols as input to change the emotion of characters. Comic symbols are popular expressions that appear in comics. In general comics, comic symbols help emphasize or clarify the emotion of characters. The proposed system utilizes this characteristic; a user assigns comic symbols to characters, and, as a result, the content of the scene changes dynamically. The association between these comic symbols and the emotions of characters is a key part of this system. For this association, it is necessary to clarify types of comic symbols and their meanings. In this paper, we clarify this correspondence. Comic symbols used in comics were collected and classified in terms of meaning and usage in a hierarchical structure.