My Garden of Emotions:

Game for Understanding Facial Expressions for Autistic Children and Adolescents

Resumo

This work presents a game entirely in Portuguese for teaching emotional skills to children/adolescents with autism. The game, My Garden of Emotions [Meu Jardim de Emoções, in Portuguese] is made up of everyday child and adolescent situations, where the player must select the best emotion portrayed in the animation, through the name of the emotion and its respective facial representation. Many of the problems with autistics in detecting emotions are due to their lack of understanding of other views and the realization of the fact that people have different perspectives. In My Garden of Emotions the player is introduced to everyday situations to understand different aspects of emotions and thus improve their quality of life and social interactions.