Technology for just-in-time in-situ learning of facial affect for persons diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 19-25

  Madsen, Miriam ^a   El Kaliouby, Rana ^a   Goodwin, Matthew ^b   Picard, Rosalind ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b Graden Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Asperger's syndrome; Autism spectrum disorders; Facial affect; Facial expressions

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; ASPERGER'S SYNDROME; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; FACIAL AFFECT; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS;

CAMERAS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 63149190347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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