A facial emotions recognition application for subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract:

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder have difficulties in facial emotion recognition (Joseph, Tanaka, 2002). Although these difficulties have been long investigated using different technologies (Alves et al., 2013; Bertacchini et al., 2013; Kim et al., 2015) results have not still yield a shared identification of all the involved variables as well as common results. In order to investigate this complex problem, an advanced application has been designed and implemented, involving the most useful features that other tools actually present in the market have. In fact, it allows the display of 3D faces expressing the following six basic emotions: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Surprise. Furthermore, the application as a more wider educational purposes, it is capable of recording both the mathematical parameters of recognition for each emotion, for each subject, and different variables (number of trials, time of …

Año de publicación:

2018

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