02-02-2006, 08:07 PM
Hi,
I hope today finds you well. I am a masters student at the MIT MediaLab and I am working on a project that is aimed to create software to help children with ASD improve their event-emotion awareness. This is in no way related to any sort of commercial thing at all, it is purely for academic research in helping people with AS.
I am running an online survey for children and parents to take together. The survey is entirely anonymous as it does not ask for any personally identifiable information, and it is of course completely voluntary. The purpose of the survey will be to better assess what methods I should use in building this web application, which will be freely open for use to all and accessible worldwide without the need to download any software (think of it as an online interactive game).
so here is the spiel
thanks for your time:
(if you want to go straight to the survey its here: http://web.mit.edu/temi/www/asd/)
=================The Spiel=============
MIT Media Lab - EECS Computer Science
Improving Emotion-Event awareness through Software (web-application)
Parents and Children with Autism, Asperger's, or any ASD in general: We are conducting a survey that is part of a research project for a masters thesis being done at the MIT MediaLab in Cambridge Massachusetts.
The aim of our research is to explore ways to build software that can assist autistic children with better understanding the connection between events and emotions. We are conducting this survey to find out more about how children with autism are able to make that emotion-event connection by simply reading text and identifying emotions or moods that go along with the text. At this stage the software will mostly be geared towards mid to high functioning autistic children (including Asperger's) who are able to read and write or type.
We are looking for children with all types and ranges of autism for the survey, but the final software we are building will most likely be geared towards children with mid to high functioning autism. The survey should take approximately 4-10 minutes. Survey submissions are completely anonymous and confidential. Furthermore absolutely no personal identifying information is required to participate.
To participate in the survey please go to: http://web.mit.edu/temi/www/asd/
If you have any questions about this research please do not hesitate to contact us. All contact information is provided on the survey site.
I hope today finds you well. I am a masters student at the MIT MediaLab and I am working on a project that is aimed to create software to help children with ASD improve their event-emotion awareness. This is in no way related to any sort of commercial thing at all, it is purely for academic research in helping people with AS.
I am running an online survey for children and parents to take together. The survey is entirely anonymous as it does not ask for any personally identifiable information, and it is of course completely voluntary. The purpose of the survey will be to better assess what methods I should use in building this web application, which will be freely open for use to all and accessible worldwide without the need to download any software (think of it as an online interactive game).
so here is the spiel
thanks for your time:(if you want to go straight to the survey its here: http://web.mit.edu/temi/www/asd/)
=================The Spiel=============
MIT Media Lab - EECS Computer Science
Improving Emotion-Event awareness through Software (web-application)
Parents and Children with Autism, Asperger's, or any ASD in general: We are conducting a survey that is part of a research project for a masters thesis being done at the MIT MediaLab in Cambridge Massachusetts.
The aim of our research is to explore ways to build software that can assist autistic children with better understanding the connection between events and emotions. We are conducting this survey to find out more about how children with autism are able to make that emotion-event connection by simply reading text and identifying emotions or moods that go along with the text. At this stage the software will mostly be geared towards mid to high functioning autistic children (including Asperger's) who are able to read and write or type.
We are looking for children with all types and ranges of autism for the survey, but the final software we are building will most likely be geared towards children with mid to high functioning autism. The survey should take approximately 4-10 minutes. Survey submissions are completely anonymous and confidential. Furthermore absolutely no personal identifying information is required to participate.
To participate in the survey please go to: http://web.mit.edu/temi/www/asd/
If you have any questions about this research please do not hesitate to contact us. All contact information is provided on the survey site.