Reading the room: AI to help autistic people interpret emotions better
For most of us, social interactions are taxing, tedious or time well spent. For the 1.5% of Canadian children and youth who have been diagnosed with autism, they can be inscrutable. With the rise of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), however, facial expression classification (FEC) systems could help autistic and neurotypical people engage better.