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This saves vast amounts of time and money, as scoring no longer requires analysis of each frame by a trained researcher – the software simply does the work for you.īelow we have listed the major action units that are used to determine emotions. This process is now possible to complete with automatic facial expression analysis. Researchers have for a long time been limited to manually coding video recordings of participants according to the action units described by the FACS. This delay ultimately adds another barrier to measuring how a participant truly feels in direct response to a stimulus. Other measures, such as interviews and psychometric tests, must be completed after a stimulus has been presented. This analysis of facial expressions is one of very few techniques available for assessing emotions in real-time ( fEMG is another option). Using FACS, we are able to determine the displayed emotion of a participant. The FACS as we know it today was first published in 1978, but was substantially updated in 2002. Originally created by Carl-Herman Hjortsjö with 23 facial motion units in 1970, it was subsequently developed further by Paul Ekman, and Wallace Friesen. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) refers to a set of facial muscle movements that correspond to a displayed emotion.