Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Our proprietary sensing technology is applied to any commercial or academic scenario requiring continuous, objective, and quantified insights into human affective and physiological responses. Key deployment sectors include:

• Clinical Neurology & Rehabilitation: Monitoring facial neuromuscular recovery, stroke rehabilitation, and facial palsy progression.
• Psychiatry & Mental Health: Quantifying objective emotional valence, depression indicators, anxiety flare-ups, and affect dysregulation.
• Dietary & Behavioral Science: Continuous automated tracking of eating habits, chewing frequency, and oral intake behavior outside laboratory settings.
• Extended Reality (XR) & Spatial Computing: Real-time expression transfer for digital avatars, immersive gaming, and non-verbal hands-free interface control.
• Consumer Insights & HCI Research: Measuring authentic consumer emotional engagement during product testing, digital content viewing, and usability trials.

Yes. A primary clinical validation example is the Improve Facial Palsy platform. This initiative utilizes virtual reality combined with biofeedback sensors to assist individuals recovering from facial weakness. Patients receive real-time visual feedback, targeted exercise guidance, and relaxation protocols within a virtual environment, allowing clinicians to objectively track micro-expression progress over time.

In addition, global research teams utilize OCOsense™ glasses in ambulatory studies to measure dietary behaviors and monitor cognitive workload during real-world task execution.

In scientific research, ecological validity refers to how closely study methods, instruments, and environments replicate authentic real-world conditions. Traditional facial coding or electromyography (EMG) requires rigid lab setups, sticky facial electrodes, or cameras fixed in front of the subject, altering natural human behavior.

OCOsense™ glasses achieve exceptionally high ecological validity by embedding wireless non-contact sensors directly into everyday eyewear. Participants move freely, converse, eat, and work in natural settings while high-fidelity biometric data is gathered continuously without artificial laboratory interference.

OCOsense™ captures multi-modal physiological and behavioral data streams, including:

• 3D Facial Muscle Activation: High-resolution optical mapping of skin movement over key facial muscle zones (zygomaticus major, corrugator supercilii, procerus).
• Emotional Valence & Expressivity: Algorithmic classification of positive/negative valence and overall facial expression intensity.
• Mastication & Ingestion Metrics: Chewing episode count, swallow interval detection, and meal duration logging.
• Kinematics & Activity Tracking: 9-axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) plus altimeter tracking head gesture, posture, steps, elevation, and body motion.
• Contextual Synchronisation: Outward-facing camera capture synchronized with sensor timestamps to contextualize physiological responses.

Patented OCO™ optomyography (OMG) overcomes the fundamental drawbacks of legacy technologies:

• Compared to Surface EMG (sEMG): OCO™ requires no conductive gel, no skin preparation, and zero direct contact with skin, eliminating motion artifacts, signal degradation from sweat, and skin irritation.
• Compared to Facial Coding Cameras: OCO™ is completely unaffected by ambient light variations, shadows, or face obstruction. It functions in pitch darkness, full sunlight, and during intense movement while preserving user privacy by keeping raw physiological data on-device.

Yes. Emteq Labs provides an open Software Development Kit (SDK) along with flexible API integrations. Partners can stream live time-synchronised raw sensor outputs, extract processed biometric feature vectors, or feed ML models directly into custom iOS/Android applications, Unity/Unreal Engine XR applications, or cloud telemetry pipelines.

Emteq Labs prioritizes data protection, ethics, and hardware compliance. Raw optical signals can be computed locally on-device to ensure user privacy without transmitting identifiable facial images. Our hardware meets strict international regulatory standards, holding CE mark, RoHS, and WEEE certifications suitable for global commercial and clinical deployment.