HapFACS Software Download and Tutorial

This is the HapFACS download page available to users who have agreed to the terms of its license. We hope that HapFACS will prove useful to you!

As you agreed to in the license agreement before reaching this page, please make sure you cite the following article in any of your work based on HapFACS: 

• R. Amini, C. L. Lisetti (2013) HapFACS: an Open Source API/Software to Generate FACS-Based Expressions for Embodied Conversational Agents Animation and for Corpus Generation.  In Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Internal Conference (ACII) , (Geneva, SWITZTERLAND, September, 2013).
  

Getting started

The latest version of HapFACS for developers is available for download by clicking on the button below.   The material contains the source code and required libraries, as well as documentation. Project files for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 are included. 

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After downloading the HapFACS code, we recommend you to have a look at the README file  in the root folder, which discusses the installation process.

How to Install the HapFACS:

1. Install the Microsoft Expression Encoder 4.0 or higher on your computer. You can download it from here.
2. Install the Haptek Player on your computer. You can download it from here.
3. Unzip the HapFACS files.
4. Go to the HapFACS/bin/Debug/ folder and run the hapFACS.exe file.
5. If you would like to modify the HapFACS source code, run the HapFAC, go to the HapFACS/bin/Debug/ folder and run the hapFACS.exe file.

How to Modify the HapFACS Code:

In order to modify the code you can use the Microsift Visual Studio. You can get the latest version of it from here.

HapFACS Tutorial Video: