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Although the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased in recent decades, therapy availability has not kept pace. Children with ASD face wait times of up to 18 months to start intensive therapies such as applied behavior analysis. Computer scientists have suggested that wearable technologies might be an answer to this problem, since children can use them anywhere for in-the-moment support.
In one such effort, researchers developed a Google Glass application (Superpower Glass) that would identify the emotion of the person in view and immediately display an emoji of that emotion as well as speak the name of emotion via the glasses. The program could be adapted (for example, to mute the emotion naming) through an app on a paren…