Autism Screening Using a Video Game Based on Emotions

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is referred to as a range of mental and physical. Usually these children deal with disorders such as social problems, repeated patterns of behaviors and inability to understand abstract concepts. If at the very childhood the occupational therapy exercises are done on a person with autism, he can return to normal life. Given the importance of early diagnosis of autism, this study presents the structure of a serious smart game for screening and rehabilitation of autism. This computer game is based on training of three important skills in understanding emotions i.e. the recognition of emotions, the emergence of emotions, and emotion regulation. The game was performed on children with autism and normal children for designing pattern-recognition algorithms for screening children with autism. Then the screening precision reached 93% using a support vector machine with Gaussian kernel.