ManyFaces

ManyFacesTeam.github.io/talks/bts-2022/

Thora Bjornsdottir, Lisa DeBruine, Vít Třebický

Founding

• 143 responses to the Interest Form
• 104 contributors to the Brainstorming Doc

Challenges

Facial expressions of emotion: Stimuli and tests (FEEST) (Young et al, 2002)

Values

Ethical Research

• Personal data protection
• Avoiding and speaking out against inappropriate use of AI/face recognition

Diversity and Inclusion

• Diversity of region, career stage, discipline, methodology, gender, nationality, etc.
• Don’t just make “the rich get richer”

Transparency

• Resources and outputs shared as openly as ethics allows
• While not every member can be involved in every decision, the process of decision making should be available to all

Goals

• Improve methods for image collection, stimulus creation, data collection, and analysis
• Diversify stimulus images, participants, and researchers
• Crowdsource image and data collection

Organisation

• Non-hierarchical structure
• Still figuring out:
  • membership model/database
  • website and communication platforms
• Links
  • Twitter @ManyFacesTeam
  • GitHub ManyFacesTeam
  • OSF https://osf.io/ngjq7/
  • Zotero

Working Groups

• Any member can propose a Working Group
• Meta-Databases: create a database of face images and related info
• Stimuli Collection: Develop stimulus protocols
• Reproducible Stimuli: develop reproducible methods for creating face stimuli

Topics

• Ethics
• Mixed Models
• Social Perception/Attractiveness

Join ManyFaces

tinyurl.com/ManyFaces-interest

Working Group Explanations

• Meta-Databases led by Thora Bjornsdottir

• Stimuli Collection led by Vít Třebický