Facial Movement Recorder is an iOS app that can record the values of 52 facial locations and eye rotation 60 times a second. These values can be used to re-create a 3D replay of the movements, and to view detailed graphs of the movement. The app can also augment the appearance of the user with blurs and virtual masks, if their current unaltered appearance upsets them.
This tech demo has been shown to dozens of clinicians, academics, and people with lived experience of facial palsy across the country. Their feedback has incrementally improved it and has helped to shape an end-to-end service where clinicians and academics will be able to create routines of movements and poses to assign to their patients. These patients will be able to complete the routines in the comfort of their own homes.
This service will give clinicians and academics objective data about facial palsy, as well as information about their patients compliance to rehabilitation routines.
Facial palsy and tremors can occur for many reasons, and people living with it can have difficulty eating, speaking, and be self conscious of their appearance. Facial rehabilitation aims to improve all of these symptoms to give people more independence in their daily lives, encouraging them to socialise, and making them happy in their workplace and routine activities.
Facial Movement Recorder can be downloaded for free here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/facial-movement-recorder/id1667312795