Abstract: An automated image processing method for assessing facially-expressed emotions of an individual, the facially-expressed emotions being caused by operation of a vehicle, machinery, or robot by the individual, including operating a vehicle, machinery, or robot by the individual and thereby expose a vision of the individual to a stimulus, detecting non-verbal communication from a physiognomical expression of the individual based on image data by a first computer algorithm, the image data of the physiognomical expression of the individual being caused in response to the stimulus, assigning features of the non-verbal communication to different types of emotions by a second computer algorithm, analyzing the different types of emotions to determine an emotional state of mind of the individual, and generating at least one of a prompt, an alert, or a change in a setting of an operational parameter of the vehicle, based on the emotional state of mind of the individual.

Abstract: An automated image processing method for assessing facially-expressed emotions of an individual, the facially-expressed emotions being caused by operation of a vehicle, machinery, or robot by the individual, including operating a vehicle, machinery, or robot by the individual and thereby expose a vision of the individual to a stimulus, detecting non-verbal communication from a physiognomical expression of the individual based on image data by a first computer algorithm, the image data of the physiognomical expression of the individual being caused in response to the stimulus, assigning features of the non-verbal communication to different types of emotions by a second computer algorithm, analyzing the different types of emotions to determine an emotional state of mind of the individual, and generating at least one of a prompt, an alert, or a change in a setting of an operational parameter of the vehicle, based on the emotional state of mind of the individual.