Faces Extension Rostock

MPDL,Faces,FIZ

Scientific Background

 * Field of study: cognitive brain science (kognitive Neurowissenschaften)
 * Main research: social cognition (Emotiosnwahrnehmung) manly of borderline patients and autistic persons
 * Background:
 * Social competence is connected with the ability to realize human facial expressions
 * E.g. persons who are not emotional balanced interpret neutral human facial expressions often as negative

--> Patients have to evaluate pictures of human facial expressions with and without oxytycin
 * Research question: Can the hormone oxytycin influence emotional defects positively?

Project Description

 * Sort of manipulation (see illustration as an example):
 * Deletion of hair ("Entmaskierung", hair is not relevant for the emotional expression)
 * Angle of eyes (values: ahead, left, right)
 * Background: The emotion of the facial expression will be observed differently based on the angel of eyes (does the person look at me or does he look somewhere else)


 * Which pictures will be manipulated:
 * the better one from the two pictures sets
 * first step: young and middle-aged persons (the eyes of the old ones are often very problematic to manipulate)
 * first step: four emotions (anger, fear, happiness, neutral)


 * Outcome:
 * Either the manipulated pictures with hair or without hair will be imported to Faces (each possibility means tree manipulations per picture), not both possibilities


 * Time schedule
 * Modification of the pictures: till March 2009
 * Currently, the modification of one person takes four hours!
 * Evaluation of the modified pictures (based on the norm study of the institute): till October 2009
 * Publishing of the study and the pictures (in Faces): Februar 2010


 * Documentation Material
 * Presentation Herr Lischke at our first meeting (09.07.08)
 * Examples of Pictures

Requirements for Faces

 * Further metadata:
 * The pictures has to be marked (values: real, manipulated) also in the browse view (via different colored frames)
 * The source of the pictures (values: MPIB, University of Rostock)
 * Angle of eyes (values: ahead, left, right; only for the manipulated pictures)


 * Statistics:
 * Who has exported the manipulated pictures? (viewing is not interesting)

Contact Partners
[http://www.kpp.med.uni-rostock.de/?pg=employees Dipl.-Psych. Alexander Lischke], Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Universität Rostock, Zentrum für Nervenheilkunde, Neurophysiologisches Labor

Questions

 * 1) Should the new pictures be handled like a further picture set?
 * 2) Shall the new pictures be searchable like the old ones over the six known attributes?
 * 3) At the moment, FACES and its pictures belongs to MPIB. How should the pictures from Rostock be marked as belonging not to the MPIB? Only via the attribute? --> General visibility of Rostock within FACES (e.g. via logo)?
 * 4) How will the new pictures be integrated into FACES? Via the MPDL or does Rostock need a separate ingestion interface?