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Face code: Using images captured from simple webcams, Affectiva’s software tracks the movement of muscles in the lips, eyebrows, and other parts of the face to determine a person’s emotional state.

Last year more than 1,000 people in four countries sat down and watched 115 television ads, such as one featuring anthropomorphized M&M candies boogying in a bar. All the while, webcams pointed at their faces and streamed images of their expressions to a server in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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