Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged

An anonymous reader writes "A device from MIT Media Labs that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed." From the article: "The 'emotional social intelligence prosthetic' device, which El Kaliouby is constructing along with MIT colleagues Rosalind Picard and Alea Teeters, consists of a camera small enough to be pinned to the side of a pair of glasses, connected to a hand-held computer running image recognition software plus software that can read the emotions these images show. If the wearer seems to be failing to engage his or her listener, the software makes the hand-held computer vibrate."

Comments

bzzzzt!

[wuie]

I better be careful where I put that vibrating computer, or else I may find it quite... stimulating... to make people extremely bored and irritated.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to find someone to talk to about my level 60 character with maxed out leatherworking.

The borg...

[Tominva1045]

Social skills are irrelevant..

You too will be assimilated.

Separately, if a person can afford all this techno-junk he can also afford to go to Charm School volunteer himself to go on Dr. Phil.

Mod Parent Down!!!

[gurutc]

Autism isn't funny, yet is funnier than parent post.

Duh!

[ChrisGilliard]

Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged

It's called a computer.

Re:I don't think you have Apsberger's

[Krach42]

A.) It's Asperger's.
B.) You totally don't know about Aspergers, and you're likely a Neurotypical (NT). Which means you're going to mistake typical Asperger behavior for being socially inappropriate.

Please, be aware that he had no intentions of coming across to you as a pompous ass. He is however socially challenged though (Asperger's is in the Autism spectrum). And Aspies and Austics just can't perceive how you're going to interpret what they write.

If they're being honest and blunt, you're likely going to call them a pompous ass. See, if he had some sort of device to buzz him and tell him that people are going to take his words as if he were a pompous ass, he'd be able to avoid doing so. But until such time as a social prostetic is available for slashdot, you're just going to have to deal with people whom you perceive as pompous asses.