may include but are not limited to nods head shaking horizontally or vertically winks frowns smiles and the like in one embodiment of the present invention facial expressions may help control the session in terms of session termination direction of session content destination redirect and session request routing in case of multiple possible destinations in an embodiment with multiple routing destinations or departments a frown may result in a prompt to be routed to customer service department whereas a smile may result in a proactive sales offer in this case a video enable ivr not illustrated may be employed to detect facial expressions of a session initiator for routing is completed in one embodiment the session requesting appliance is a stationary appliance or otherwise fixed in a stationary position in this embodiment the face detection application 107 may be left open colors may be used to indicate different states of the face detection application when someone walks inside the field of view of the camera the face detection application may activate by displaying a camera with a colored border the colors may be an indication of the state of the application for example red may indicate the camera does not detect anyone if the application is left in the red state for a long enough period the application may go back to sleep yellow may indicate that someone is detected and the application is preparing an image from the camera to be sent to the other party green may indicate.