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Ecological Facial Display Recognition

The ecological theory has two major consequences.
  1. Facial display is a reliable, graded, mutually beneficial signal of contingent future action.
  2. The costs and benefits of particular signals vary with the social contexts and the human's intentions within them.
Psychologists have recently uncovered the media equation, which states that
The way a human interacts with media is naturally the same as when they interact with another human.
This means that we can one of the humans in the picture above with an embodied agent with a face, and the same two consequences of the ecological theory of facial displays should hold for both agent and human.
Read on about the implications of this.