DevEmo—Software Developers’ Facial Expression Dataset

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the relevance of remote activities and digital tools for education, work, other aspects daily life. This reality highlighted need emotion recognition technology to better understand emotions computer users provide support in environments. Emotion can play a critical role improving experience ensuring that individuals are able effectively engage computer-based tasks remotely. paper presents new dataset, DevEmo, be used train deep learning models purpose users. dataset consists 217 video clips 33 students solving programming tasks. recordings were collected participants’ actual work environment, capturing students’ facial expressions as they engaged DevEmo is labeled indicate presence four (anger, confusion, happiness, surprise) neutral state. provides unique opportunity explore relationship between computer-related activities, potential development more personalized effective