Social Skills Software
Mind Reading by Human Emotions
Mind Reading is a unique reference work covering the entire spectrum of human emotions. Using the software you can explore over 400 emotions, seeing and hearing each one performed by six different people. This excellent software program was developed by a team at Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre with support from The Shirley Foundation.
Mind Reading is for everyone interested in emotions. It has been designed with awareness of the special needs of children and adults who have difficulties recognizing emotional expression in others. Individuals on the autistic spectrum often have great difficulty understanding emotions. This software is particularly good for people with Aspergers or high functioning autism, who wish to study emotions and to learn the meanings of facial expressions and tone of voice, drawing on a comprehensive underlying audio-visual and text database.
Mind Reading is also an invaluable resource for actors, directors, writers and anyone involved in the dramatic arts.
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Mind Reading consists of three main applications:
A fourth application is available for tailoring the software to the specific needs of individual users, and for monitoring user performance. |
Emotions Library
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Here you can study 412 different emotions organised into 24 related groups. Six video clips are provided for each emotion showing close-up performances by a wide range of people (old, young, men, women, boys, girls, etc). Six audio clips are also provided with the chosen emotion being expressed in the appropriate tone of voice. There are written definitions, synonyms, notes, a search facility and a scrapbook where you create and organise your own collections. The emotions library is now available separately for only $49.95. |
Learning Centre
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This area of the product is intended to help people who have difficulty recognising emotions. It has been designed particularly with the needs of those with autism spectrum disorders and Asperger Syndrome in mind. A variety of lessons and quizzes are provided to present emotions in a systematic way and then to test recognition. The difficulty of the lessons can be adjusted to suit a wide range of ages and ability levels. A rich set of collectible rewards is provided to help motivate students. |
Games Zone
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If you just want to have fun with emotions, then play one of the games in this section of the product. See how world famous actor Daniel Radcliffe reacts to being offered some raw squid! Visit a school, an office or a market to guess how the people there are feeling. Play a fast moving card game where you have to match the faces to win. The games zone encourages informal learning about emotions in a less structured setting. |
Two versions of the Mind Reading demo are available:
View Flash Demo (Quick Version)Choose the Flash Demo for lowband connections as it has been designed with speed and ease of use in mind. You will need to have Flash 6 installed on your computer. If you wish to install Flash 6, click here.
This demonstrates just one of the 412 emotion pages from the Emotions Library section. For samples of the other sections view the full Shockwave Demo. Click on the single image in the top right to see a full screen presentation of the video. Clicking on the tabs will display different information about the emotion. The video quality is less good than in the product itself in order to be accessible online at a reasonable speed.
View Shockwave Demo (Full Version)Choose Shockwave Demo if you have a broadband connection (or are prepared to wait!), to see better quality and more of the product itself. You will need to have Shockwave 8.5.1 installed on your computer. If you wish to install Shockwave 8.5.1, click here.
This demo gives you a taste of the three main sections of Mind Reading, but some functionality is not available in this demo. Only one group of emotions is available (the excited family). Please note that video quality of the demo is lower than that of the actual product so that the demo can load quickly over the internet.Mind Reading is available for both Windows and Apple Macintosh (OS 9 and OS X) computers.
In order to install and run Mind Reading you should have a computer with the following:
| Mind Reading DVD Price: $129.95 |
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| Mind Reading CD-Rom Set Price: $129.95 |
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