In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," bye Nick D' Alto, the auothor describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. A clam for or against the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions, I think it's a good idea to know the mood or emotions of people.

The first reason why it's a good idea to know the mood or emotions of a person because imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad. Knowing their emotion you can do something to help them with their day. For example, if someone is sad in the picture or something you can help them by cheering up their day.

The second reason why it's good idea to know the mood or emotion of a person because theory of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. For example, Putting on happy or sad face can actually get you sad or happy. Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial experssions.

The last piece of evidence is we as people usually have trouble describing a person's emotion. For example, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her/his face. With the new computer software, Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotion.

The auothor describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. A clam for or against the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions, I think it's a good idea to know the mood or emotions of people.