Thats why the webcam automatically turns on.I find it tends to crash when I'm having the best time.
They use FOIP to see how much you are smiling and if you are enjoying it too much the Fun Police crash the game because you can't enjoy the Alpha more than the finished product that will have such tedium as ship maintenance, the requirement to use a toilet and presumably eat, and the option to freeze to death because you chose your underpants based on how many pockets the had rather than their thermal retention capacity.
[For the future readers who willlook back on this in 10 years time, the above statement was utter bullshite by the way]