HELPING YOUR CHILD TO LEARN FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

Our Mission  Help Teach Facial Expression

Key Areas  Aimed at Children 3 > 5  Early Intervention  Help Child Recognise Facial Expressions  Provide meta-data capture in order to create reports that can be shared between parents, therapists and teachers

What are we doing that is different  Adding a new level of interaction with the Kinect motion detection  Allowing for a digital report to be captured and shared between selected parties to monitor the child’s progress  Allowing for a level of customisation to allow Therapists, Parents and Teachers a way to make the application personalised  To enable a one on one relationship with subject matter through use of their own image

Main Technologies  Kinect SDK > To provide an interactive interface for learning  HTML / CSS / JS > to provide animations and UI layout  Azure > to provide a centralised place for reporting and to enable Parent / Teacher / Therapist login  Simple Motion API > Audio file interpretation for emotional response  Windows Desktop Application > First prototype to run on a desktop, future builds can run in Metro 8 UI and Xbox Live

Meta-Data Collection and Reporting  Reports are collected at points through-out the apps  The reports are sent to the “Cloud”  At the Bing Fund “Apps for Autism” presentations we heard “Customisation is the key to tools and one thing we don’t see enough of”  Customisation enables the application to grow with the child and for them to see their own facial expressions