Improving communication skills of children with ASDs through interaction with virtual characters

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

Abirached, B (Author) Other; Zhang, Y (Author) Other; Aggarwal, JK (Author) Other; Tamersoy, B (Author) Other; Fernandes, T (Author) Other; Miranda, JC (Author) Other; Orvalho, V (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2011

Pages: 1-4

2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2011

Braga, 16 November 2011 through 18 November 2011

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-008-38T

DOI: 10.1109/SeGAH.2011.6165464

Abstract (EN): This article presents the LIFEisGAME project, a serious game that will help children with ASDs to recognize and express emotions through facial expressions. The game design tackles the main experiential learning cycle of emotion recognition: watch and recognize, learn by doing, recognize and mimic, generalize or knowledge transfer to real life. We briefly describe the technology behind the character animation pipeline centered on the creation of a generic rig. Then, we detail the facial expression analyzer that uses Active Appearance Models. Last, we describe the user study experiment using game mode "recognize the expression". © 2011 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific