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The use of the Facial Action Coding System technology is to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom which is not valuable to a classroom. In my honest opinion I believe it is very unnecessary. The first reasoning is that this technology that was developed was developed for a very different purpose than the usage of a classroom. My second reasoning is that the technology doesn't even claim to detect the boredness of the students. Others may argue that it will help students in a positive way but they are completely wrong because it will do up to nothing for them. All these reasonings combined are the main factors as to why i believe that the usage of this technology is not valuable in the school environment.

My first reasoning as to why i believe that this facial and emotional recognition technology is not valuable in a classroom setting is because the sole purpose as to why it was built was to detect emotions in an individual. It was not developed to help students make learning easier in any way. According to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "New software has been developed that improves the accuracy in percieving the emotions of others. This new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has promising application for a variety of industries." This is evidence that helps support my claim because it is a statement that explains the purpose of this new technology which is only for the detection of emotions in the face of humans and not to help young students to advance their school life. Also, according to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece). Each expression is compared against a neutra face (showing no emotions)." This statement/quote is evidence of my claim because again it states the true purpose of this technology and what it is truly used for; not once in that statement had it discussed how it would help students better their education.

My second reasoning as to why i believe this technology is not best fit for the school environment is because the technology is used to only detect 6 emotions and using it to help teachers combat "boredom" within their student is not one of them. The article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto states, " Eckman has classified six basic emotions-hapiness,surprise,disgust,fear and sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." This is evidence because the quote clearly states that the emotions that are detectable are not inclusive to boredome if the technology can't detect boredom

or confusion then how can it help with the students. The article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto also states, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a students is becoming confusesd or bored,' Doctor Huang predicts." This is evidence of my claim/reasoning because this statement by the creater of this technology even says it COULD happen which leads us to infer that it probably would not happen anytime soon, meaning that although this technology is smart it still may not be able to help students out.

Others may argue that the usage of this Facial Action Code System will help students positively in the classroom but they are completely wrong. This system may not even help them at all. According to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "'Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,' notes Dr.Huang 'So computers need to understand that, too.'"

This is evidence as to why those that argue it is a positive effect is wrong because the inventer of this technology basically stated the technology has more to understand (such as the emotional communications of humans), meaning that this technology may not fully comprehend all of the emotions of not just humans but students if this technology was to be placed in the classroom settings. Also according to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery." This is evidence because it states what it could do for a students which is adding more cartoon expresions

and thats basically about it. It doesn' really help out a students when theyre confused just because there are more animated cartoons.

In conclusion, I believe that the Facial Action Coding System is not a valuable usage in a classrrom of students. First, the technology was built for asole purpose of detecting facial emotions and not to help students in any way but add cartoons. Second, the technology is not advanced enough to even detect emotions of boredom in students , it can only detect six emotions in which bored is not one. Others may argue that it will positively impact the students but they are completely wrong because it literally does nothing for them. Finally, in my most honest opinion this technology is mainly useless in a classroom which is why it is clearly not valuable in a classroom environment that includes students.

Score: 5