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Face Reader Bridges Autism Gap
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- You are a mind reader, whether you know it
or not. You can tell just by looking at a human face whether the person is
concentrating, confused, interested or in agreement with you.

But people afflicted by autism lack this ability to ascertain emotional status -
- it's one of the signature characteristics of the disease. Help could be on
the way for autistic individuals, though: A novel computer-vision system
developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could do the mind
reading for those who can't.

Two MIT researchers wore tiny cameras mounted on wire rods extending
from their chests to demonstrate the Emotional Social Intelligence
Prosthetic, or ESP, at the Body Sensor Networks 2006 international
workshop at MIT's Media Lab last week. The video cameras captured facial
expressions and head movements, then fed the information to a desktop
computer that analyzed the data and gave real-time estimates of the
individuals' mental states, in the form of color-coded graphs.