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Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces. Theoretical and Practical Issues pp 387–402Cite as

The Ability of Children with Mild Learning Disabilities to Encode Emotions through Facial Expressions

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Children with limitations in their abilities to encode and decode emotions through corresponding facial expressions may be excluded from social and educational processes. Previous research has demonstrated that children with learning difficulties may suffer differentially in their ability to recognize and denominate facial expressions that correspond to the basic emotional states. This study evaluates the ability of children with mild learning difficulties to produce seven basic facial expressions (happiness, sadness, anger, afraid, disgusted, confidence, and surprise) in response to verbal commands. The evaluation was based on a subject’s ability to communicate an emotional state correctly to his/her peers. The results show that their ability to produce a facial expression was affected in different degrees and that there exist correlations between the ability to perform certain facial expressions.

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El-Haddad, C., Laouris, Y. (2011). The Ability of Children with Mild Learning Disabilities to Encode Emotions through Facial Expressions. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Martone, R., Müller, V.C., Scarpetta, G. (eds) Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces. Theoretical and Practical Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18184-9_34

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