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Video Modelling in FaceSay™
What if your child, student or client with an ASD could practice gaze following with their special needs teacher (e.g. Michael above) in an interactive, evidenced based game, such as FaceSay (above, right)? Can you envision your kids practicing joint attention, emotion matching and face recognition with an interactive "software puppet" of their teacher or ABA tutor? Would that promote engagement and generalization to everyday social interactions? If a child is averse to looking at faces, do you think seeing his mom and brother as FaceSay characters might make him laugh instead of turn away? Is that even possible? Yes and yes. FaceSay offers an option to add custom animated characters from a digital photo. A special education teacher in Louisiana shared what happened when we animated a student's mom and sibling in FaceSay.
He thought seeing his mom was funny! When he realized what we were working on, he closed his eyes just like before. When he realized it was mom and brother he completed 2 exercises."
it was so cool to see him actually look at the screen instead of closing his eyes. I think your program is really amazing and I hope and pray that the stimulus money goes through. We need this program!"
- Special Needs Teacher
If you would like to add a custom FaceSay character to boost your child or student's success with FaceSay, select the Premium edition of FaceSay Home, FaceSay Classroom, or FaceSay Clinic. All of the studies have used only our standard FaceSay characters, so we offer the custom character as an optional add-on.
To help demonstrate how close a FaceSay custom animated character is to live video, Michael Leventhal, a special education teacher in NYC, recorded the video of himself on the left to compare against his Custom FaceSay Character on the right. What do you think? You can tell the difference, of course, but the FaceSay character is quite realistic, yes? And it's software, not a video, so it's highly interactive and there are no rehearsals, posing, special acting or re-takes required. Michael painstakingly created the video on the left. We created Michael's FaceSay character on the right from a single digital photo. In addition to this simple gaze motion, this "software puppet" of Michael can do everything the characters in the FaceSay game can do, smile, wink, speak, etc. For example, notice the subtle smile we scripted at the end of the demo video on the right above. Michael, by the way, has been a big fan of Video Modelling for many years. Click here to watch a great video of Michael and some students modelling a sneeze.
To help demonstrate how close a FaceSay custom animated character is to live video, Michael Leventhal, a special education teacher in NYC, recorded the video of himself on the left to compare against his Custom FaceSay Character on the right. What do you think? You can tell the difference, of course, but the FaceSay character is quite realistic, yes? And it's software, not a video, so it's highly interactive and there are no rehearsals, posing, special acting or re-takes required. Michael painstakingly created the video on the left. We created Michael's FaceSay character on the right from a single digital photo. In addition to this simple gaze motion, this "software puppet" of Michael can do everything the characters in the FaceSay game can do, smile, wink, speak, etc. For example, notice the subtle smile we scripted at the end of the demo video on the right above. Michael, by the way, has been a big fan of Video Modelling for many years. Click here to watch a great video of Michael and some students modelling a sneeze.