Facing the challenge of teaching emotions to individuals with low- and high-functioning autism using a new Serious game: A pilot study

Molecular Autism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Serret, Sylvie ^a   Hun, Stephanie ^a   Iakimova, Galina ^b   Lozada, Jose ^c   Anastassova, Margarita ^c   Santos, Andreia ^a   Vesperini, Stephanie ^a   Askenazy, Florence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NICE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Computer based Intervention; Emotion Recognition; High functioning Autism; Low functioning Autism; Serious game; Social Skills Training

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; GAME; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; TEACHING; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84904278046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20402392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-37     Document Type: Article

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