An interactive facial-expression training platform for individuals with autism spectrum disorder

Tsangouri, Christina; Li, Wei; Zhu, Zhigang; Abtahi, Farnaz; Ro, Tony

doi:10.1109/urtc.2016.8284067

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“…An SG game for smartphone devices capable of assisting in the development of emotional skills for individuals with ASD was presented by [36]. The tool was composed of a communication interface for the smartphone (app) and a server with services for requests, emotion processing, and emotion classification.…”

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Recognition of Emotions for People with Autism: An Approach to Improve Skills

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2022

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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Autism spectrum disorder refers to a neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by repetitive behavior patterns, impaired social interaction, and impaired verbal and nonverbal communication. The ability to recognize mental states from facial expressions plays an important role in both social interaction and interpersonal communication. Thus, in recent years, several proposals have been presented, aiming to contribute to the improvement of emotional skills in order to improve social interaction. In this paper, a game is presented to support the development of emotional skills in people with autism spectrum disorder. The software used helps to develop the ability to recognize and express six basic emotions: joy, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, and fear. Based on the theory of facial action coding systems and digital image processing techniques, it is possible to detect facial expressions and classify them into one of the six basic emotions. Experiments were performed using four public domain image databases (CK+, FER2013, RAF-DB, and MMI) and a group of children with autism spectrum disorder for evaluating the existing emotional skills. The results showed that the proposed software contributed to improvement of the skills of detection and recognition of the basic emotions in individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

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Recognition of Emotions for People with Autism: An Approach to Improve Skills

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2022

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“…Esta abordagem é fortemente empregada em jogos digitais para computadores desktop fazendo uso de recursos externos; porém, pouco utilizada nos dispositivos móveis. O jogo desenvolvido por Tsangouri et al [8] faz uso desta abordagem, identificando as emoções dos jogadores a partir de algoritmos de aprendizagem de máquina.…”

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Jogos Digitais para Pessoas com Transtornos do Espectro do Autismo (TEA): Uma Revisão Sistemática

Fernandes

Nohama

2020

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Individuos com transtornos do espectro do autismo (TEA) possuem desenvolvimento atipico nas areas cognitiva ou de aprendizagem, comunicacao e interacao social, deteccao e trato de emocoes, coordenacao motora e concentracao. O desenvolvimento de tecnologias assistivas e fundamental para melhorar a qualidade de vida destes individuos. Este estudo faz uma revisao sistematica da literatura com foco em jogos digitais usados como tecnologias assistivas para individuos com TEA. Fazendo uso da base digital IEEE Xplore, foram pesquisados estudos que continham o termo game em conjunto com termos relacionados ao TEA. A partir da busca foram encontradas 193 ocorrencias do conjunto de termos. Os artigos foram lidos e analisados, sendo selecionados os estudos que tratam de jogos digitais com foco em individuos com TEA. Foram excluidos da selecao jogos que fazem uso unicamente de hardwares especificos e que nao apresentam funcao de tecnología assistiva. Como resultado final deste estudo foram selecionados 62 artigos neste contexto, sendo que todos apresentam resultados positivos quanto ao uso dos jogos digitais na melhoria das capacidades das pessoas com TEA. Desta forma, e possivel verificar a consistencia de tal abordagem, encorajando a continuidade das pesquisas e do desenvolvimento de jogos digitais com foco em tecnología assistiva para pessoas com TEA.

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“…However, its founders want to perform a larger scale user study for higher validity. Similar applications for the promotion of social-emotional development are 'Video Modeling Imitation Training' (Cardon, 2012), 'Emotion Mirror' (Deriso et al 2012), 'iPad play story' (Murdock et al 2013), and 'EmoTrain' (Tsangouri et al 2016) [63][64][65][66][67].…”

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Mobile Applications to Improve Emotional Intelligence in Autism – A Review

Papoutsi

Drigas

Skianis

2018

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<p>The ability to understand and regulate emotions in ourselves and others is essential for the healthy development of all human beings. It helps people comprehend themselves and other people, it guides response and decision making and enhances the capacity to develop social relationships. People with Autistic Spectrum Disorders have deficiencies in Emotional Intelligence skills and that leads to difficulties in understanding themselves and the people in their social environments in relation to emotions, feelings and thoughts. The usability of mobile applications developed for children and adolescents with ASD is important because it gives the opportunity to practice in an accessible and creative way to enhance their emotional intelligence. The current article aims to carry out a systematic review of mobile applications on improving emotional intelligence in children and adolescents with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.</p>

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An interactive facial-expression training platform for individuals with autism spectrum disorder

Cited by 15 publications

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Recognition of Emotions for People with Autism: An Approach to Improve Skills

Recognition of Emotions for People with Autism: An Approach to Improve Skills

Jogos Digitais para Pessoas com Transtornos do Espectro do Autismo (TEA): Uma Revisão Sistemática

Mobile Applications to Improve Emotional Intelligence in Autism – A Review

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