Facial Coding

Facial coding is the process of interpreting human emotions through facial expressions. Facial expressions are captured using a web camera and decoded into their respective emotions.

Decode helps to capture the emotions of any respondent when they are exposed to any media or product. Their expressions are captured using a web camera. Facial movements, such as changes in the position of eyebrows, jawline, mouth, cheeks, etc., are identified. The system can track even minute movements of facial muscles and give data about emotions such as happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, etc.

Experience Facial Coding ✨

To experience how Facial Recognition works, click here: https://facial.affectlab.io/.

Once you are on the website, start Facial Coding by playing the media on the webpage. Ensure your face needs to be in the outline provided next to the media.

Please enable your web camera while accessing the application.

Insights from Facial Coding 👩🏻💻

Now one would wonder what we do with this data. Facial coding results provide insight into viewers’ spontaneous, unfiltered reactions to visual content by recording and automatically analyzing facial expressions during the process. The information is collected in real-time and gives cognitive metrics of the user’s genuine emotions while experiencing/viewing the content. It depicts the user’s attention, engagement, or emotions through facial movement.

The results are made available to users in the Result Dashboards. 

You will get the following metrics from facial coding:

Attention 

Attention score is a parameter measured on a scale of 0-100, quantifying visual attention depicted by respondents while being exposed to the stimulus. Typically measured by analyzing Blink rates, head orientation, and Facial Expressions pertaining to Attention.

Engagement

Engagement refers to the level of involvement, attention, and emotional connection that a viewer has with the media content they are consuming. It is typically measured by analyzing Blink rates, head orientation, and Facial Expressions pertaining to Attention.

Emotion AI metrics

Emotion response refers to the collection and analysis of data related to the emotional reactions of respondents to various stimuli, such as advertisements, products, or brand experiences.

  • Positive Emotions: the platform uses a combination of two emotions - Happy and Surprise - to determine whether the user felt happy while watching a particular video.
  • Negative Emotionsthe platform is using a combination of three emotions - Anger, Disgust, and Contempt - to determine whether the user felt sad while watching a particular video.

 Note: Fear and sadness are not included in negative emotions, as these emotions need to be considered in the context of the media and can be shown as standalone emotions.