A Learning System to Support Social and Empathy Disorders Diagnosis through Affective Avatars

摘要

Nowadays diagnosis and treatment of cognitive and physical health issues can be empowered through the use of information technologies. However, there is a significant gap between the potential of those technologies and the real application. One example is the use of serious games with health proposals, a trending research area still not implanted in health systems. This paper proposes the use of serious games, particularly an interactive and affective avatar-based application to support the diagnosis and treatment of empathy and socialization issues, in an autonomous way through the implementation of a learning algorithm based on the ground truth obtained from the evaluation with real users, including normotypical users, users with Down syndrome and users with intellectual disability.