The SARA Project

Diana Arellano, Volker Helzle, Ulrich Max Schaller, Reinhold Rauh, Marc Spicker, Oliver Deussen
2015 Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction - Interacción '15  
SARA is an ongoing research project that investigates in a novel and artistic way the causes for social communication and emotion recognition deficits in children and adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The novelty of our work resides in the real-time generation and parameterization of emotional facial expressions of virtual characters by means of speed, intensity and abstraction, the latter achieved by non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) techniques. Although the
more » ... oject is currently in an ongoing phase, it shows the potential of using virtual characters and real-time techniques for interactive experiments, which otherwise would be impossible using "linear stimuli" (e.g. pre-rendered animations).
doi:10.1145/2829875.2829884 dblp:conf/interaccion/ArellanoHSRSD15 fatcat:3su7iafv3jg33erqjv5yauh6hq