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Children diagnosed with autism, and its milder cousin- Asperger’s Syndrome-often have difficulties operating in the highly complex social environment in which we live and are, for the most part, unable to read or understand other people’s emotions (e.g. Baron-Cohen, 1995; O’Connell, 1998). Consequently, they need to be taught explicitly how to read other people’s minds from non-verbal communication channels such as the face. This chapter reports work in progress on the emotional hearing aid, a portable assistive computer designed to help children with Asperger’s Syndrome read and react to facial expressions of the people they interact with.
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El Kaliouby, R., Robinson, P. (2004). Emotional Hearing Aid: An Assistive Tool for Children with Asperger’s Syndrome. In: Keates, S., Clarkson, J., Langdon, P., Robinson, P. (eds) Designing a More Inclusive World. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-372-5_17
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