‘Your Face Looks Backwards’

As it looks to your State Board of Health.

Grasping with Your Face

BCI (Brain Computer Interface) technology shows great promise in the field of assistive robotics. In particular, severely impaired individuals lacking the use of their hands and arms would benefit greatly from a robotic grasping system that can be controlled by a simple and intuitive BCI. In this paper we describe an end-to-end robotic grasping system that is controlled by only four classified ...

The hierarchical face: higher rankings lead to less cooperative looks.

In 3 studies, we tested the hypothesis that the higher ranked an individual's group is, the less cooperative the facial expression of that person is judged to be. Study 1 established this effect among business school deans, with observers rating individuals from higher ranked schools as appearing less cooperative, despite lacking prior knowledge of the latters' actual rankings. Study 2 then exp...

Usability Indicators - In Your Face

This paper discusses the method of observing facial expressions as a potential technique to infer usability problems perceived by the users. We present some of the topics of discussion that this approach might raise and the research issues associated.

In your face: transcendence in embodied interaction

In cognitive psychology, studies concerning the face tend to focus on questions about face recognition, theory of mind (ToM) and empathy. Questions about the face, however, also fit into a very different set of issues that are central to ethics. Based especially on the work of Levinas, philosophers have come to see that reference to the face of another person can anchor conceptions of moral res...