StoryFace

Creative Work
Author: 
Alexandra Saemmer
Serge Bouchardon
Year: 
2018
URL: 
Website of the original work
Youtube video of the performance
The New River (Fall 2018)
Language: 
English
French
Publication Type: 
Exhibited at gallery or event
Performance
Published on the Web (online journal)
Platform/Software: 
JavaScript
Event: 
bleuOrange Performance Evening #2 (Wednesday)
Electronic Literature Organization 2018: Mind the Gap!
Electronic Literature Organization 2019: Peripheries (ELO 2019)
License: 
All Rights reserved
Record Status: 
Approved record
Tags: 
storyfaceloveemotionsperformancechatmeetartificial intelligenceinteractioninteractive
Description (in English): 

"StoryFace" is a digital fiction based on the capture and recognition of facial emotions.

The user logs onto a dating website. He/she is asked to display, in front of the webcam, the emotion that seems to characterize him/her the best. After this the website proposes profiles of partners. The user can choose one and exchange with a fictional partner. The user is now expected to focus on the content of messages. However, the user's facial expressions continue to be tracked and analyzed… 

What is highlighted here is the tendency of emotion recognition devices to normalize emotions. Which emotion does the device expect? We go from the measurement of emotions to the standardization of emotions. 

StoryFace was re-published in The New River in 2018.

Critical writing that references this work:

Titlesort descending Author Year
A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS (Fall 2018) Dan Melling, Christopher Wilson 2018
ELO 2018: Database Collaboration, Facial Recognition, and Third Generation Electronic Literature Hannah Ackermans 2018
The New River (Fall 2018) 2018
Multimedia: 

StoryFace: performance at ELO Montreal (August 2018)

The permanent URL of this page: 

https://elmcip.net/node/13744

Record posted by: 
Carlos Muñoz