But the way she conveys her feelings, joy and pain using just her facial expressions, all while confined in a wheelchair, are marvelous.

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Emoticons, which represent moods and facial expressions using a combination of punctuation marks, numbers and letters, are the darling of the texting world.

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Then, using established tools for evaluating facial expressions and speech patterns, their interactions with each other were carefully analyzed.

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Ekman himself offers training from his website, or you can train yourself by studying facial expressions and identifying the basic ones using simple pictures which you look at for shorter and shorter periods of time.

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