I had the same thoughts... and yes, people often thing I'm upset or mad and I'm just fine. This causes a lot of problems with my Dad (who used to practice clinical psychology, lucky me)...
It kinda reminds me of that Dog (and I think a Cat one was coming) Translator that Japan (I believe) had created to translate your dog's barks into English...
I suspect it depends a lot on the Aspie. My facial expressions are reasonably close to NT most of the time, but I'm awful at deliberately altering them to mask my emotions, so I'm not a good poker player at all.
Sounds cool. I'm doing a project on adaptive technology, or technology designed to accomodate the disabled, and this is the first I heard of AT designed for people with AS.
I think it might be more useful as a learning tool or perhaps with close friends and family, due to the problem mentioned in one comment with people being likely to react badly to a random machine pointed at them.
a device like this might have been a great aid to me, if:
it was entirely accurate all the time with everybody
it was a device that interfaced with my glasses (or something like that) so that the people i was using it to detect couldn't actually see that i was using a device at all
if it lacked either of these two aspects, it probably would have caused me more trouble than it would help.
Let me see if I can respond intelligently to this.
Many of the problems Aspies have identifying facial expressions and social cues are similar to the problems researchers are having teaching computers to recognize those things. The reasons, however, are likely to be completely different.
So... instead of actually trying to come to a closer understanding of Aspies or encouraging older Aspies to mentor younger ones, somebody came up with the bright idea to have a computer teach an Aspie about facial expressions.
... Something that has to be taught what a face is is supposed to be better at teaching a person how to read facial expressions than an actual person?
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It kinda reminds me of that Dog (and I think a Cat one was coming) Translator that Japan (I believe) had created to translate your dog's barks into English...
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if it lacked either of these two aspects, it probably would have caused me more trouble than it would help.
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Let me see if I can respond intelligently to this.
Many of the problems Aspies have identifying facial expressions and social cues are similar to the problems researchers are having teaching computers to recognize those things. The reasons, however, are likely to be completely different.
So... instead of actually trying to come to a closer understanding of Aspies or encouraging older Aspies to mentor younger ones, somebody came up with the bright idea to have a computer teach an Aspie about facial expressions.
... Something that has to be taught what a face is is supposed to be better at teaching a person how to read facial expressions than an actual person?
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