roslyn welcome to the shell
in q closer and maybe our viewers at home a little bit about the mit
media lab and the kinds of things that you're involved
sure i'm i don't professor here at mit media lab in cambridge massachusetts
i directory search and a half that of computing that's within a
and we focus on building new technologies that help with the measurement and communication our
emotional information
this
first blush
sounds like things to do with faces and voices and it does of but it
also turns out to be involved in things that affect our general health as well
and it's really remarkable especially take into consideration individuals running artisans spectrum and how they
can benefit from it and in fact you have an entire initiative there that have
to do with technology communication not as a correct
yes we're been extremely interested and making technologies that how people who have various kinds
of communication challenges
and a we you have a ten talk that's really remarkable i can imagine how
exciting it is to do attend talking to be able to share the information that
you have and in your type talk you are talk about these bracelets the can
measure emotion correct
organisation from show you want my the main goal right now
i like a
in front of like that would be of the so are you taking data right
now is your speaking to us about your emotional state
i've been collecting at all week here here's a one of wireless sensors are okay
here
when you
measures of three things that measures can connections accelerometer in temperature from the surface of
the scan and together these start together picture of your both your activity and it
look at higher environment and you're autonomic stress
and then you started to use this in conjunction with individuals are on the spectrum
of it while they're having very correct
we in fact it was originally individuals of the spectrum that inspired us to go
back to this technology and try to make it more of a communication tool
people in the spectrum are telling us that i well we had heard you know
they have trouble understanding emotion in many of them are saying well actually it's our
emotions that you're misunderstanding
and we could use a little bit more helping better understood
so in our spirit of always developing technology could well you know with the user
right not trying pretend we know what they need but wanting to really truly understand
what's needed and really trying to listen you known to many people who were non
speaking about were typing or finding other ways to let us know what they wanted
you know they said they may need to be better understood when they were stressed
or experiencing sensory overload or experiencing you know and
you know problems with environments that other before noticing
for what we can measure that we can show people that
and then you can change things according to it as can't you because for especially
for kids that are as verbal not as vocal sometimes we don't we don't know
what's happening but this gives a sixty to understand
it gives a piece of the missing information i have to say to it doesn't
necessarily tell you how to fix the problem it will tell you for example a
person goes in room in the signal goes up and
and maybe the real many goes to anna nicole or because of that can tell
you hey there's probably something about this room that's causing this and then you can
start debugging on the floor supply is that person over there is that the smell
you know again we don't tell you the actual cause of the stressed
for the what to do to solve it but we tell you that something significant
change your and
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