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Sitting in class and listening to the teacher drone on and on about a particular subject that one finds completely boring sounds like the perfect time to take a nap right? Well, Thomas Huang, of the Bekham Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois has been working with Prof to create a system that can detect human emotions through facial expressions. Facial Action Coding System is highly beneficial for students' emotions in the classroom. People try to decipher other peoples' emotions on a day to day basis, so much so that body language and facial expressions is a key part to how the human populace communicates. Considering the fact that all emotions are universal, the system can detect any one person's emotions and even break down mixed feelings. Try to imagine the scenario with the boring teacher, but when the Facial Action Coding System detects the class as bored the lesson changes into something much more interesting and captures the attention of the class and enabling a happier school environment.

The students at SCHOOL_NAME see the same faces day in and day out to the point in which one can all tell the emotions of others through their face, however sometimes it is hard to get a read on how people are feeling. In paragraph five, Nick D'Alto states,"In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, ect." The significance this piece of textual evidence has is precisely that if a student had a problem with expressing their emotions or even themselves could not describe what they are feeling the computer system would be able to help by diagnosing the emotion and that could prompt the student to open up to a trusted adult so that they can move past ther hardships and focus on school. Humans use facial expressons to communicate just as much as verbal communication. When you understand another person's emotions you can begin to communicate effectively with said person.

Emotions are universal; whether you are from America or China your facial expressions will be compatible with each other. Expressing emotions is a good way to communicate even if you can not effectively verbally communicate with someone. This coding system can even decipher mixed feelings so that one can always effectively communicate even if the person in question does not speak the same language as you. The text states in paragraph four,"By weighing the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece). Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)."

Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions, so when a student is watching an online lesson and becomes bored, the system will detect that and find a more interesting lesson to try to re-grab the students attention. Some may say that this system is ineffective because it can only graph the emotions of people. However, this system allows the computer to alter the subject's learning path to create a yearning to learn. Students need to want to learn in order to actually retain the information that is ground into their head on a day to day basis. When a student learns something they are particulary interested in their ability to remember and recall the information increases incredibly. The author writes,""A classroom computer could recognize when a studen is becoming confused of bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor"" (p. 6). The goal for the human race is to become more intelligent and to do so we need the help of computers to keep our youth interested in the world has to offer in the educational system.

Every day humans try to detect what other people feel and usually can pick up only tiny hints. If we were to bring the Facial Actioin Coding System into schools the students would benefit tremendiously! Non-verbal communication is just as important as verbal communication and this system will enable a more productive school day by keeping the students interested in what they learn, keeping communication effective, and a bonus is that all emotions are universal so it does not matter who you want to communicate with language barrior or not.

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