Emotional Intelligence Screening: Detecting Emotional Arousal in Non-Communicative Individuals

Abstract: Recognizing emotional states and understanding other people's emotions is a key problem for people with Autism, with difficulties being experienced with both their own emotions and in recognizing emotions of others. In this talk, we present our Emotional Intelligence Screener (EIS) which combines measures of ElectroDermal Activity (EDA), Temperature and Eye gaze metrics of pupil dilation to detect the changes in emotional states in individuals which reflect normal and abnormal emotional response to stimuli.  

Presenter: Dania al-Omar
Dania is an MSc student in the Computer Science department of King Saud University's College of Computer and Information Sciences. Her project involves the design and development of emotional intelligence screening systems based on physiological measures of humans, supervised by Dr. Manar Fawzi and Dr Areej Al-Wabil. She is a teaching assistant in Imam University's College of Computer Science.
 
Date: May 26, 2012

Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Location: Room 17, Building 20