Google Glass Apps and Hardware to Autistic Kids

Updated on: Monday, December 29, 2014

Helping autistic kids to learn social and communication skills is a great and noble tasks, now, A US based start-up is developing Google Glass apps and hardware add-ons that help to do this task and side by side provide feedback to caregivers.

Brain power startup is the Cambridge, Massachusetts based one. It was founded by neuro scientist Ned T.Sahin. He did his graduate training at Harvard medical school and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

To begin with Brain power is initially focusing on children with moderate to high functioning autism.

Brain Power’s Google glass apps encourage kids to interact with their parents by presenting excuse like game.

As such, 200 people have signed up for Brain power’s beta programme, which will be conducted in 3 stages stays next year.

Sahin trusts that Google Glass is good and most suitable for helping child of autism since it has an accelerometer chip that enables head gestures which. Brain power uses to track when kids look or don’t look at their parents, as well as stereotypic or the repetitive movements which many people with autism make.

As stated by sahin, it is possible to provide numerical, objective, repeatable assessment of a child’s curtailed behaviors and possible progress over time.

This program addressed Brain Power’s Google Glass apps – Empowered Brain suite it for autism – helps kids to interact with their parents and make eye contact by presenting exercise like a game. The social engagement module monitors of the apps to identify how a child engaged with their parents.

This software is also useful for the kids to interpret people’s expression through a series of games. Tackling language is another utility of the software. That is, when a child of autism looks at something. Through Google glass, the object is identified and its name displayed and spoken through the glass’s ear bad.

Google Glass Apps and Hardware to Autistic Kids

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