You Be The Computer

What To Do

Pre-activity (optional)

Show learners the following videos to best support learning outcomes: 

• Watch this episode of The Solutioneers, where the team is incorporating AI facial recognition software into their robot. They set up a baseline and teach the computer the differences between a smile and a frown (~4minutes). 
• Watch the episode of Maker Space , where the Makers walk through setting up and using Microsoft’s cognitive emotion tracking services, allowing their EZ-Robots to track emotions (~5minutes).

Activity

• Ask educator to spilt learners into small groups (approximately four learners) to work together. 
• Taking turns, learners collect data by taking five pictures of each person in the group, where each picture needs to capture one of the following emotional states: 
  • No emotion (neutral) 
  • Happy (smiling) 
  • Sad 
  • Surprised 
  • Angry 

NOTE! If learners do not have access to technology to take photos, prepared emotion slides can be substituted for step two and three of these instructions. 

• Learners study the faces of the pictures they took, paying close attention to eyes, eyebrows, mouth position, etc. to learn how best to capture and replicate certain emotional responses. 
• Once learners have completed their ‘study’, they break off independently to each draw five faces, where each face shows one of the five emotional states, outlined in step two of these instructions. 

NOTE! If learners are struggling, encourage them to compare emotional photo states to the neutral photos. 

• Once all learners of each group have drawn the five different faces, capturing the five emotional states, learners come back together in their groups to test out their 'emotion recognition' by asking each other to identify the emotion shown in their different drawings.