Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
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Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
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Re: Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
#2Some good info written in annoying marketing press release style. Would be good to get this as a phone app with a headmounted camera, since that's far cheaper than Google Glass + doctor's prescription.
Re: Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
#3It is worth noting that difficulties in recognising emotions in faces are by no means unique to ASD; they also occur in ADHD [1], anxiety disorders [2], schizophrenia [3], and probably other psychiatric/neurodevelopmental disorders as well. So, if this technology has value, its value would be a lot broader than only ASD.
(As an aside, a lot of people tend to have this narrow focus on just ASD to the exclusion of other psychiatric/neurodevelopmental disorders, despite the fact that all these disorders have lots of overlap and rather fuzzily defined boundaries. None of the symptoms of ASD are unique to ASD; they all occur in other conditions also; given that all treatments for ASD are treating symptoms rather than the unknown underlying causes, any therapy for any ASD symptom is very likely to also work for other disorders in which the same symptom is expressed.)
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Da_Fonseca/public...
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Monk2/publi...
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...
Re: Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
#4I imagine that there are nuances to facial expression that might be difficult to extract from an image or video, depending on the parameters to your ML model.
For example, if someone looks into my eyes, furrows their brows, and shakes their head slowly back and forth, this could mean that they are intensely sympathetic with me (when I am talking), or it could mean that they are disgusted with what I have said (when I have stopped talking), or many other things. If you add sound input to your model then maybe it can figure out how to incorporate that dimension into its results.
Very cool though. Maybe you could have something like this to help colorblind people see colors, deaf people see sounds, the possibilities are exciting.
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#5Is this a claim that computers are better at emotions than some humans? Something does not sit well.
Re: Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
#6Interesting that emojis of faces can be identified but not actual faces. Is this because the emoji is just much simpler to process?
Re: Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
#7Interesting that emojis of faces can be identified but not actual faces. Is this because the emoji is just much simpler to process?
Emoji faces look identical while people differ in their facial expressions and how they choose to show them.
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#8Is this a claim that computers are better at emotions than some humans? Something does not sit well.
this robot can walk better than a disabled human in a wheelchair? something does not sit well.
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#9Unfortunately it seems that something will need to change within society at large in order for these to be acceptable outside of the home.
Re: Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
#10Is this a claim that computers are better at emotions than some humans? Something does not sit well.
Identifying emotions, yes.