[Script animation: a method for describing and replicating natural human movements].

Script-animation, a new method for prototypically describing and replicating natural movements of the human body, is introduced in this paper. The principal elements are the technique for producing scripts of behavior through biomechanical taxonomy, and the digital interface, which feeds the positional codes to the respective body structures of a computer doll. Illustrating the new method, all gestural movements from 59 political leaders as they appeared in TV-broadcasts news were reanimated on a simple doll. 84 subjects viewed the original sequences and 36 subjects viewed the reanimations. Simultaneously, the psychophysiological responses of the subjects were recorded. A comparison of physiological parameters shows high similarity in vegetative judgement.