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FaceReader in Combination with FaceReader Online

Main Topics

• What is FaceReader Online?
• Import your FaceReader Online project into FaceReader
• Create a FaceReader Online trial account

What Is FaceReader Online?

FaceReader Online is our facial expression analysis service that runs online on a cloud server and does not need any on-site installation. This means that you can test appreciation or impact on-site while participants can stay at home, allowing you to incorporate a much larger number of participants and saving them the effort of coming to the lab at the same time. If you like, you can define questions in FaceReader Online or integrate FaceReader Online into your own survey software, such as Qualtrics. You can view a screen recording with the test participant's gaze overlay in FaceReader Online's Recording Results.

You can import data from your FaceReader Online projects directly into FaceReader and analyze the data using all the analysis functions that are available in FaceReader.

Import Your FaceReader Online Project into FaceReader

1. Use one of the following two options:
   • In the FaceReader Start window click Import project or
   • From the File menu select Import FaceReader Online Project.
2. Sign in to your FaceReader Online account. A webpage on the FaceReader Online website opens showing an overview of all your Active, Completed and Closed projects.
3. The status of your FaceReader Online projects is either:
   • Not Yet Created: you do not have a project file yet.
   • New Results Available: invitees participated in your FaceReader Online test after you created the previous project file. The data of these participants are not in the project file yet.
   • Up To Date: your project file contains the data of all the subjects who participated in your test sofar.
4. Click the Generate project file icon to create a project file or add new results or recordings to your existing project file.
5. Select whether you want to include recordings in your project file and click Generate. The project file status changes to Generating and you can follow the progress of the file generation.

   When the project file is ready, the project file status will change to Up To Date.

6. Click the Import project file icon.
7. Select where you want to save your FaceReader project. Optionally, enter a new name for your project and click OK.

You are now ready to:

• Open the analyses, view the data per test participant and make charts — See FaceReader's output. If you selected to show your participants' recordings when you created the FaceReader Online project and you included your recordings when you imported the project in FaceReader, you can visualize the test participant's face next to the Stimulus View and, for instance, the participant's Expression Intensity chart. See Stimulus View in FaceReader's output for more information. If you selected to Include gaze tracking when you defined your FaceReader Online experiment, the Stimulus View window shows the participant's gaze overlay.
• Export the data of each participant in a State log or Detailed log file — See FaceReader's output.
• If you selected to include your recordings when you imported the project — Re-analyze the videos, for instance, to select the EastAsian face model instead of the General model or to calibrate and then run a new analysis.
• In the Project Analysis section — Visualize your data in charts and calculate statistics over all participants or per participant group (for instance, male and female participants or different age groups).

Create a FaceReader Online Trial Account

If you are new to FaceReader Online and want to try it out you can create a trial account. In the FaceReader Start window select Create account under FaceReader Online and follow the steps on your screen. Click Learn more in the Start window to open the FaceReader Online page on the Noldus website.

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