PARLE is a mobile phone system for people with autism and social phobia that allows them to more effectively participate in social situations.

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The publication on PARLE can help you understand about how technology can be used to help people with social impairments such as autism and social phobia. It has already been cited by leaders in the field, such as Simon Baron-Cohen of The Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University and Rosalind Picard at The MIT Media Lab. Why don’t you join them?

The Persuasive Adaptive Interactive Xperience (Paix) is a seductive hypermedia community information system that aims to promote peaceful lives in 21st century communities.

Using the latest psychological theories from The Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Paix aims to help people overcome their barriers they have to success through understanding them as an individual with membership of many groups (e.g. communities) as opposed to a lone individual in a single networked society (c.f. networked individualism).

A version of Paix, dedicated to the Community of Pontypridd is currently being developed. One feature will be a memorial to the peaceful efforts of those who worked as part of the war effort during the Second World War in the food and munitions factories, farms and mines for instance. This part of the project was first envisaged in December 2010 as reported in the Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer.

MEDIAT stands for; ‘The Mediated Emotion Demonstration Intervention using Avatars and TAGTeach’.

It is an intervention for people who have difficulty dealing with emotions and social situations, such as autism, social phobia, and anxiety conditions among others. This trains them to deal with their emotions and thoughts effectively. Using neural-computing it gives feedback to the user to help them adjust their thinking patterns to deal with the situation they are in.

A demonstration on MEDIAT was made at the British Psychological Society’s Wellbeing Conference at Glyndwr University in September 2011.

Try it out for yourself
Do you have problems in social situations or understanding your or others’ emotions. MEDIAT could help you. DCOT are trying to build an evidence base to make MEDIAT available for personal use. If you are located in South Wales and have a social/emotional condition please get in touch – MEDIAT could change your life. Please complete the confidential form below or email the co-ordinator, Jonathan Bishop, on jonathan.bishop@crocels.com. Persons who take part will be entered into a draw to win either a iPod Shuffle, Amazon kindle, or a digital photo frame of their choice from Amazon worth up to £50.