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Google Glass could help children with autism socialize with others
Google Glass may have failed as a high-tech fashion trend, but it's showing promise as a tool to help children with autism better navigate social situations.
A new smartphone app that pairs with a Google Glass headset uses facial recognition software to give the wearer real-time updates on which emotions people are expressing. In a pilot trial, described online August 2 in npj Digital Medicine, 14 children with autism spectrum disorder used this program at home for an average of just over 10 weeks. After treatment, the kids showed improved social skills [open, DOI: 10.1038/s41746-018-0035-3], including increased eye contact and ability to decode facial expressions.
After her 9-year-old son, Alex, participated in the study, Donji Cullenbine described the Google Glass therapy as "remarkable." She noticed within a few weeks that Alex was meeting her eyes more often — a behavior change that's stuck since treatment ended, she says. And Alex enjoyed using the Google Glass app. Cullenbine recalls her son telling her excitedly, "Mommy, I can read minds."
Q: What does the scouter say about his emotional state? A: He is confused... Now he has recognized this device as Google Glass and has become enraged.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday August 04 2018, @05:53AM (2 children)
"Conspicuous autistic Glasshole today, normal-looking eyeglasses, contact lenses, or jewelry tomorrow"
I remember a story I read thirty or more years ago where old people wore glasses that recorded everything and could call the police if the wearer warranted it. I can't for the life of me recall the name of the book, or whether it was a short story, novella, or novel. At the time I thought of it as something that could never occur within my lifetime, a flight of fantasy set in a dystopian world (not all dystopias are bombed out crater towns with robots and renegades running amok). I would love to read it again. It was apparently more prophetic than I realized in my youth.
If I remembered more of the plot, I could probably figure it out, but that was the only bit I recall.....
Ah, to be a kid again, when bleak, surveillance state stories were fiction, and not daily life.
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(Score: 2) by https on Saturday August 04 2018, @03:46PM (1 child)
You're perhaps thinking of "Earth", by David Brin?
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday August 07 2018, @01:45AM
Ah, thank you, that was it, just re-reading it last night, have the entire Brin Planets series, haven't re-read them in years.
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