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# Mexca User Profile

In this document, we describe the user profile(s) for the software tool Multimodal Emotion Expression Capture Amsterdam (MEXCA). We use nine criteria to construct the profile(s).

## Profile

1. Occupation/Education:
    - Higher education students
    - PhD students
    - Postdocs
    - Asst. Professors
2. Domain: (Computational) Social Sciences
    - Political Science
    - Communication Science
    - Psychology
3. Goals: Analyzing emotion expressions from politicians' faces, voices, and speech content
    - Over time
    - Across modalities
    - Across politicians
4. Tasks:
    - Data collection
    - Data preprocessing
    - Data analysis
    - Data visualization
    - Reporting results in papers
    - Teaching
5. Domain knowledge:
    - Is familiar with emotion theories (e.g., six basic emotions, valence-arousal model)
    - Is familiar with emotion expressions and operationalization of emotions (e.g., facial action units, voice pitch)
6. Computer experience:
    - Knows how to install common software on Windows and Mac (i.e., Docker)
    - Knows about standard file formats (e.g., .txt, .csv, .wav)
    - Knows how to transfer and convert files using standard software (e.g., .mp4 to .wav)
7. Software experience: Knows basic programming in R
    - Knows how to import and process tabular data (e.g., dplyr)
    - Has a basic understanding of standard modeling/machine learning concepts (e.g., features/predictors, classification, cross-validation)
8. Limits:
    - (Has limited time resources)
    - Does not know how use the command line
    - Does not know how to build programms from source files
    - Does not know how to use git
    - Has no knowledge of deep learning

9. Values:
    - Appreciates open science:
        - Reproducible analyses
        - Transparent analyses
    - Prefers simplicity
    - Prefers interactivity
