Social-Emotional Intelligence Prosthetic

April 3, 2006 Social-Emotional Intelligence Prosthetic The proposed project is the first of its kind: its design and strategy are original and potentially powerful for aiding people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (who are impaired in their ability to perceive social-emotional cues) and for improving understanding of the role of social-emotional communication in natural human interaction. The project will advance the ability of machines to infer cognitive affective states from nonverbal expressions of people engaged in natural interaction, and will enable the context of the perceiver to begin to be exploited in improving performance of real-time perceptual . . .