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An android for enhancing social skills and emotion recognition in people with autism

Giovanni Pioggia1, Roberta Igliozzi, Marcello Ferro

  • 1Interdepartmental Research Center E Piaggio, the Faculty of Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy. giovanni.pioggia@ing.unipi.it

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering : a Publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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