Google Glass can be a friendly tool to children with autism as it can help them understand emotion.
Julian Brown is one of those kids with autism, who also has trouble reading emotions in people's faces. This symptom is one of the biggest challenges of people with neurological disorder.
The 10-year-old boy from San Jose is now getting help from autism glass, an experimental device that can record and analyze faces in real time. It can also alerts the user to the emotion that he is experiencing, NBC News reported.
According to the source, the facial recognition software was developed at Stanford University, and it is run on Google Glass. Behind this technology are the Standford student Catalin Voss and researcher Nich Haber. According to Voss, they had come up with the idea of creating a behavioral aide that would recognize faces and expressions. The device also gives clues to the user according to what it recognizes.
This technology owned by Google is a computerized headset with a front facing camera, which is designed in the shape of a pair of eyeglasses. This gadget was introduced in 2013.
Brown is one of 100 kids with autism participating in Stanford study to see if the new technology can help them recognize facial expressions. The boy wears the "autism glass" for three 20-minute session in one day. During a session, he interacts with his family members face-to-face. He also wears the glass every time he is talking, playing games, and eating his meals, US News reported.
The device can detect an emotion while Brown is doing an activity. Whenever it detects an emotion, for example, "happiness," it shows the word "happy."
Google gave about 35 Google Glasses to Standford, however, it has not been involved in this project. The company stopped producing the device in 2015 because it failed to gain commercial success, however, the device found new life in medical researchers.
