AnimalFACS
CalliFACS
A repository to access CalliFACS information and documentation
What CalliFACS is:
The Marmoset Facial Action Coding System (CalliFACS) is a scientific observational tool for identifying and coding facial movements in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The system is based on the facial anatomy of marmosets and has been adapted from the original FACS system used for humans created by Ekman and Friesen (1978). The CalliFACS manual details how to use the system and code the facial movements of marmosets objectively. The manual and certification is freely available (see below).
More info regarding the development of this FACS system can be found here:
What CalliFACS isn’t:
CalliFACS is not an ethogram of facial expressions, and does not make any inference about any underlying emotion or context causing the movement. Instead this is an objective coding scheme with no assumption about what represents a facial expression in this species. It will not explicitally teach you common marmoset facial expressions
Useage of materials
Please note, you are not permitted to use any videos provided with the FACS manuals, or test, without written permitted from the owners. Please contact animalfacsuk@gmail.com if you wish to request permissions to use any materials.
Accessing the manual
The CalliFACS Manual is freely available via the link below CalliFACS Manual
Accessing the test
To become a certified CalliFACS coder, we encourage you to take the associated test. The CalliFACS test involves trainees to accurately code the facial movements in a series of video clips.
The test can be accessed here: CalliFACS Test materials
Please read the enclosed test instructions. Once completed, please contact catia_caeiro@hotmail.com with your completed test sheet, along with the following information:
1) Your name 2) Your intitution 3) Your reason for persuing CalliFACS certification.
The people behind it
CalliFACS was developed thanks to the effort of:
Catia Correia-Caeiro Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
Anne M. Burrows, Department of Physical Therapy, Duquesne University
Duncan Andrew Wilson, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
Abdelhady Abdelrahman School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Takako Miyabe-Nishiwak, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
Acknowledgments
We would further like to thank: The Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (KUPRI) and the Center for International Collaboration and Advanced Studies in Primatology (CICASP) for hosting CCC during this work; The staff at the Centre for Human Evolution Modelling Research, KUPRI for the care of the common marmosets; Dr. Claire Watson and Prof. Hannah Buchanan-Smith for permission to use the videos hosted on www.marmosetcare.com; The owners of videos hosted online on YouTube.com and Instagram.com for permission to use the videos or for having videos marked with CC (Creative Commons Licence): Brave Wilderness, Oleg Pavlov, and MomoMyMarmoset.
And finally, to Daniel Mills and Jennifer Wathan for helpful comments on previous versions of this manual.