Knowledge Base

Add Your Test Participants

Aim

To define the test participants in your study. FaceReader organizes the data per test participant. You can enter participants automatically, or manually.

Add Participants Automatically

With A Basic FaceReader License

If you know before you create your project how many participants and analyses per participant your project will contain, you do not need to enter them manually. Use the Project wizard instead.

With The Stimulus Presentation Tool

With Project Analysis and The Stimulus Presentation Tool, each participant is added automatically to the project when he/she starts a test. You do not have to add participants manually.

See Carry Out A Test With The Stimulus Presentation Tool

Add Participants Manually

1. Do one of the following for each test participant in your study:
   • Choose Participant > Add Participant.
   • Click the Add Participant button on the toolbar.
2. In the Name field, enter the participant's name or, for example, a number.
3. Two Independent Variables, Age and Gender, are present by default. FaceReader automatically estimates the age and gender of the participant from the video, camera input or image.

   To set the age or gender manually, click the pencil button and enter the correct value. Enter integer values for age, for example 40, not 40.5.

Notes

• To edit a participant, double-click its name and edit the details.
• To delete a participant, make sure all its analyses are closed. To close an open analysis, click the button next to it. Right-click the participant's name and select Delete Participant.
• You can define extra Independent Variables. If you do so, also enter the values for these variables in step 3.

  See Define Independent Variables

• If you set the participant's gender or age manually, these are fixed with these values in the Circumplex Model of Affect and are not estimated by FaceReader.

Source: FaceReader 10 Reference Manual (Help), Noldus Information Technology