Six young American actresses were asked to smile—some for over an hour. A computer observed them going about it. Whenever there’s no genuine emotion behind the smile or the actresses are distracted, an alarm goes off.

Programming: Sean Crowe (USA)
Models: Melissa Berger, Laura Clumeck, Natasha Desai, Kyra Locke, Susan Marshall, Cameo Cara Martine.
Others include Pierre Moreels (F), Pietro Perona (I), Javier Movellan (E), Marni Bartlett (USA), CALTECH, California Institute of Technology, Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering, Pasadena and the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California San Diego's Institute for Neural Computation.

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