TEAPET: Desenvolvendo Pets Digitais Voltados para Indivíduos Portadores do Transtorno do Espectro Autista
Abstract
The ability to interact with other people and establish relationships is an extremely important skill for living in society. To build these bonds, it is important to know how to interpret emotional signals, as well as how to respond to them in an appropriate way. This aspect, however, constitutes a deficit in most individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which makes these people’s relationships more limited than neurotypic ones. In order to work in this skill, this article proposes the development of TEAPET, a game that uses technologies and learning that can be passed on with the help of a virtual pet so that, through the association between the pet’s facial expressions and their needs, the child evolves in relation to the interpretation of other people emotions.
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