Analyzing Facial Responses

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Analyzing Facial Responses
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Analyzing Facial Responses

In the third and final segment of our body & facial expression webinar series, we will talk about how to automate the analysis of facial responses to understand your user’s emotions. Facial analysis is one of the least intrusive methods for capturing real-time emotional reactions in a highly automated manner. These systems use computer algorithms that take video from a common webcam and provide frame-by-frame emotion metrics as outputs.

Current methods for collecting emotional responses often require a participant to constantly verbalize their thoughts and feelings. This approach is unnatural and may yield unreliable results. Facial metrics can be captured in the background as a participant performs a series of tasks while evaluating a website. The software can automatically pinpoint when a person is feeling certain emotions and can be tied directly to what they are doing.

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Join our Director/Principal Researcher, Andrew Schall, and CEO of Kairos, Brian Brackeen, to learn about the latest tools and methods used to analyze facial expressions as well as understand the opportunities and limitations of using this technology in user research. During this webinar we will cover:

  • An overview of available facial analysis tools
  • Demonstration of facial analysis software
  • How to integrate facial analysis into your existing user research methods
  • Discuss the pros and cons of using facial analysis

 

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The Role of Facial Expressions in User Research

The Role of Facial Expressions

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Webinar: Facial Expressions in User Research 

In our first webinar of this 3-part series, we discussed the role of body language in user research. We looked at some examples of different postures, gestures, and facial expressions people often make and we shared some tips for how to respond as the moderator when you’re in those situations

In this webinar, we are going to dive deeper into facial expressions specifically and the role they play in user research. We’ll share some common situations in UX research and some of the more relevant facial expressions to pick up on while observing users. We will be discussing the seven universal facial expressions of emotion, which are:

  • Fear>
  • Happiness
  • Sadness
  • Surprise
  • Anger
  • Disgust
  • Neutrality

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Facial Expressions in UX Research

Obtaining feedback from users during a research study is not always just about listening to what people have to say. As researchers, we should listen to what participants tell us while also focusing on their nonverbal behaviors like posture, hand gestures, facial expressions, etc. This nonverbal data can be coupled with other qualitative feedback you observe, and it will help you better understand what the user’s actual feelings and emotions are during the test session.

Recognizing these facial expressions and attributes can help moderators to classify a person’s mental and emotional state throughout a test session. Utilizing facial recognition can and should be used in combination with established research methods, such as usability testing, to provide a more detailed view of users’ experiences. For example, when testing the new website of a financial institution, you may find that users are able to use the site and complete tasks successfully, but are potentially experiencing surprises in response to certain messaging on the site. It’s great that tasks are being completed successfully, but it’s the facial expressions that are commonly overlooked, and detecting these emotional reactions can and will aid in creating the most pleasant experience for users.

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UXPA Webinar on Presumptive Design: It’s Not Research! We’re Getting Stuff Done!

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Presumptive Design & Agile UX Design

With the rise in popularity of Lean UX, Agile, and DevOps, UX professionals are facing continuing pressure to complete their work in shorter time periods than ever before. How are we supposed to identify the key concerns of our users and our customers, not to mention discover disruptive opportunities in the market in two-week chunks?

In this webinar, Frishberg, and Lambdin offer a method they’ve been using for several years and recently published in their book, Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation by MK. The pair will introduce the method in the context of Agile, comparing and contrasting it to Lean UX.

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About the Presenters and Host:

This webinar will be sponsored and hosted by Key Lime Interactive’s CEO, Ania Rodriguez:

Ania has served as a user UX advisor to Fortune 1000 companies around the world for nearly the past two decades on topics of User Interface Design, Product Design, and User Research. Known for her focus on actionable results and quality, Ania’s leadership has resulted in double-digit growth over the past five years and the company has emerged to become the leading user experience research firm in the US.

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Finding the Right Tool for Your Quantitative Research

Finding the Right Tool

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So Many Tools, So Little Time

If you do quantitative research, I’m sure you’ve had this problem before. You’ve figured out how you want to test your site, and identified the perfect methodology, only to realize you need to decide on a survey tool. If it’s a tool you’ve used before, no problem, but what if it’s a different methodology? A Google search results in 10 different tools that seem to fit your needs, and you find yourself wading through pricing plans, feature lists, and marketing copy, and two hours later you still haven’t decided which tool is best for your team.


Key Lime Interactive is here to help. Being a consulting research firm, we have the opportunity to work with many different online quantitative research tools without being locked into a particular provider. In this 45-minute webinar, Phil McGuinness, one of our user experience researchers with a focus on quantitative research tools, will discuss his flowchart for choosing the right research tool based on your budget and data collection needs. In addition, he’ll provide information about how he came to recommend each solution for each particular problem, and why.

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What You Can Expect to Learn:

 

  • How to choose the best tool for your particular need
  • Why each tool is recommended by Key Lime Interactive for that solution
  • The strengths and weaknesses some of the most popular quantitative research tools, from the perspective of a UX Researcher

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Intro: The Role of Body Language in User Research

The Role of Body Language

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Intro: The Role of Body Language in User Research

 

Let’s say you find yourself in the middle of a test session and the user you’re with isn’t doing the best job of articulating their thoughts and feelings. You should remain vigilant in listening to the participant, but you can also focus more of your attention on their nonverbal behaviors like posture, hand gestures, facial expressions, etc. This nonverbal data can be coupled with other qualitative feedback you observe, and it will help you better understand what the user’s actual feelings and emotions are during the test session.

In this webinar, we demonstrate common situations in UX research and some of the more relevant emotions to pick up on while observing users. Some of the gestures we will be acting out will be related to:

 

  • Confidence
  • Confusion
  • Frustration

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UX Webinar Highlights

Joining this webinar will help give you the skills you need to improve the interactions you have with your test participants, and these skills will help you generate more accurate and actionable feedback from your users.

This webinar will be an intro to the first in a series, the next one will deep dive into facial expressions, and we’ll close out the series with the power of the face and eye insights.

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2015 Holiday Shopping Survey Overview

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2015 Holiday Shopping Survey Overview
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Best Aspects of Online & Mobile Shopping Experiences

 

In Key Lime Interactive’s (KLI) 2015 Holiday Shopping Report, the results from its January post-holiday survey of 500 consumers was revealed. The report focuses on consumer spending behavior as it relates to online and mobile purchases during the holiday season.

The report examines consumers’ usage of different channels (websites, mobile apps, mobile sites, brick-and-mortar stores, and more), tendencies to use different devices (Smartphones, tablets, laptop/ desktop computers), as well as the top triggers and influencers that lead consumers to make online and mobile purchases (such as marketing, promo codes, free shipping, convenience/ speed, and brand loyalty).

KLI reveals how, where, why, and how much consumers spent during the 2015 holiday season, including:

 

  • Which retailers are winning in the online and mobile channels?
  • What are the most effective and enticing incentives?
  • Did consumers spend more or less online this year?
  • Have mobile purchases increased or decreased? And why?
  • What made for the best online and mobile experiences?
  • Retailer apps usage: pros and cons

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