The ‘Weekend van de Wetenschap’ offered a playful way of engaging in activities related to science and technology. Where else would be a demo of FaceReader more suited than on this weekend?

Peter Lewinski was one of the scientific tutors and explained the usage and reason for the development of FaceReader. Can you imagine manually assigning a number to every muscle participant moves in the face? And not only annotating the presence/absence of such movement but also the intensity. You can get tired just by thinking about it!

This is one of the reasons FaceReader was developed and is still used. All this manual coding can be automated! By now FaceReader not only can distinguish the basic emotions defined by Paul Ekman and Action Units (AUs), but it also reports the Circumplex model of Emotion by James Russell.

You can see

– the six basic emotions identified by Ekman and neutral,

– the Circumplex model of Emotion by Russell,

– the AUs

in our new FaceReader 6 demo!