Mind-reading capabilities,
About ESPInspired by human's superior Mind-reading capabilities, we are building a wearable computer with a computational model of mind-reading. The prosthetic infers affective-cognitive mental states from head and facial displays of people in real time, and communicates these inferences to the wearer via sound and/or tactile feedback.
The project addresses open Research Challenges pertaining to whether machines can augment social interactions in a way that improves human to human communication. A longer term aim is to use the prosthetic as an assistive and therapeutic device for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. You can download our NSF Proposal for more details. NSF provide the Funding for this project.
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Mind-reading
In psychology, theory of mind or mind-reading describes our ability to attribute mental states to others from their behavior and to use that knowledge to guide our actions and predict those of others. Mind-reading is fundamental to our social functions, decision-making, perception and memory.
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Motivation
People diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are mostly Mind-blind. Despite their difficulties communicating with others in natural social environments, individuals with ASD, particularly those diagnosed at the high-end of the autism spectrum, such as Asperger Syndrome, persistently seek interaction with others. These attempts to integrate normally often fail, posing significant problems to the person’s attempts to work and learn in traditional educational and workplace environments. We are looking into ways with which technology can be used as an assitive and therapuetic device for people with ASD.
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Objectives
In this project we explore the role of technology in promoting social-emotional intelligence of people to systematically measure and learn more about how social-emotional skills interact with learning
Mind-blind
A term in psychology often used to describe the lack of or impairment in the ability to understand and reason about other people’s nonverbal communication and affective/cognitive mental states. See Mindblindness for more information.
A longer term aim of the proposed research is to use the wearable computer as an assistive and therapeutic device for people with ASD
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