Quick Setup Guide

Main window example:

The AiMonic program can be used for a variety of purposes. Someone wants to control fatigue, nervous tension or learn to become aware of negative thoughts, someone wants to avoid expression lines, other applications are also possible.

If you have multiple goals, choose the most important one in the first step.

The program analyzes your face and evaluates how strongly it expresses each of eight emotions: Anger, Contempt, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Neutral emotion, Sadness, Surprise. The greater the similarity, the greater the numerical value for each emotion. If undesirable emotions are expressed too strongly, or desirable emotions are expressed too weakly, the program may warn you.

For example, in the picture below, warnings are enabled when anger and sadness are too strong (these are the default settings), and the current value of anger exceeds the upper limit. All lower limit warnings are turned off.

If you don't know yet what facial expression is undesirable for you, or if you can't summon it arbitrarily, then go to second item. If you do know and can, then go to point one.

1) Setup for when you can arbitrarily make an unwanted facial expression.

Take a rest, turn on the light you use most of the time when working with the program, sit as you usually sit while working.

Open the settings, go to the “Limit Settings” tab. Picture on your face the expression at which the program should alert you. Look at the current emotion scores. Perhaps some emotions are too strong (the highest values) and some are too weak (the smallest values). In the first case, activate the checkbox for upper limits, in the second case for lower limits. Set the values of the limits approximately according to the current values of emotions, which will be monitored by the program. Do not activate control of all emotions at once, select two or three most important ones.

Click the “Apply” button, check that the warning is issued at the right moments, then click the “Save” button. The “Reset” button returns the values to the last saved settings.

You may want to give yourself the option to briefly express unwanted emotions, so that the program only tells you when you are “stuck” in them. In this case, go to the “General settings” tab and set the desired delay. To start with, you can set the time to 10...30 seconds. Click “Apply” and “Save”.

Along with issuing the warning, the program highlights the emotion that caused it in the settings and in the text output. This will help you to correct the settings while working with the program.

2) Setup for when you cannot arbitrarily make an unwanted facial expression, but can quickly realize that the unwanted condition has just occurred.

Open the settings, click on the “Limit Settings” tab. Uncheck all the checkboxes, click “Apply” and “Save”.

Work with the program running. As soon as you realize that you have just been in an undesirable state (e.g., angry), press pause and look at the printout of emotion values for the last few seconds. Look for strongly expressed emotions (the largest values), and weakly expressed emotions (the smallest values). Don't try to control everything at once; choose no more than three emotions to start with.

Customize the alert as follows: Open the settings, go to the Limit Settings tab. Use the checkboxes to activate upper limits for positive values, or lower limits for negative values. Set the values of the limits to the numbers you have checked.

Click the “Apply” and “Save” buttons.

Along with issuing a warning, the program highlights the emotion that caused it in the settings and in the text output. This will help you to correct the settings while working with the program.