Do you see what I see? Taking perspective of others using facial images
This addresses potential bias and validity issues in HCI and emotion recognition studies by assessing perspective-taking accuracy.
The study investigated the accuracy of people in perceiving intended emotions from facial expressions, finding that using facial expressive images is relatively safe for research when emotions are limited to the six basic emotions.
Albeit many HCI / emotion recognition studies use facial expressive images, few scrutinize the accuracies of the people (experimenters and participants) in perceiving the expressions representing the intended emotions. The misinterpretation of the expression will put bias in the data and introduce questions on the validity of the studies. The possibility of misinterpretation of the expressions will be the focus of the experiment conducted in this study. The experiment will evaluate the ability of people in taking the perspective of others in spite of their current emotions and gender, and whether the expressions can be universally perceived. This study find that it is relatively safe to use facial expressive images for research as long as the emotions are exclusively within the six basic emotions.