Contents

 
• Introduction
  • Project Motivations
    • The Call for the Formalization of Emotional Education in Schools
    • Affective Computing
    • Related Work
  • Child Development
    • Moral Assumptions
    • Emotional Recognition in the Very Young Infant
    • Emotional Expression in the Infant
    • Acquisition of a Sense of Self and Other
    • The Emergence of Empathy in the Preschooler
    • The Role of Play in the Emotional Development of a Child
      • How Gender Biases a Child's Play
    • The theoretical use of the Affective Tigger as a tool for the emotional education of children with developmental impairments such as autism
• Pilot Study
  • Playing with a Stuffed Animal
  • Recognizing Tigger's Expressions
    • Redesigning the Affective Tigger
  • Preliminary Conclusions
• Constructing an Expressive Toy
  • Design Goals and Philosophy
    • Huggable Computing
    • Theory Why it will Work
  • Description of the Affective Tigger
    • Phase 1: Expression
    • Phase 2: Detection
      • Intonation and Vocal Emotional Expression
    • Phase 3: Recognition
  • Description of the Child for Which the Affective Tigger is Intended
  • Emotional Sensitivity
• The Child Trials
  • Method
    • Subjects
    • Data Quantification Procedure
  • Summary of Results and Discussion from the Child Trials
    • Error Analysis
• Evaluation
  • The Plush
  • The Child
  • Conclusion
• Laboratory Procedures
• The Release Forms for the Affective Tigger Trials
  • Consent Form (for the MIT community) for the Affective Tigger project
  • Consent Form (for the California Community) for the Affective Tigger project
  • Video Tape Consent
• Documents for the Affective Tigger Child Trials
  • The Story Line for the Affective Tigger
  • Preliminary Questions for the Affective Tigger Child Trials
  • Debriefing the Affective Tigger trial
  • The Follow up Phone call
• Quantified Results
  • The Independent Data Collection Survey
• Cost Estimate for the Affective Tigger Toy
• About the Author
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• References
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