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Emotion Intelligence Enhancement and Improvement for People with Autism

Samaa A. Ahmed 1 and Samir Abou El-Seoud 2
1. Emirates NBD Bank in Egypt
2. Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, The British University in Egypt (BUE), Egypt

Abstract—Autism was introduced in the twenties century specifically in 1944. Autism is defined as a development disorder that affects the social skills, nonverbal communication or what is known as body language. Children with autism have communication troubles. They have trouble to understand what other people think and feel. As a consequence, it makes them very hard to express themselves by any other means. People with Autism tends to have high IQ but very low EQ. In addition, one who suffers autism tends to have a specific routine, aggressive response when changing this routine. The Proposed Idea is to develop a computer algorithm/methodology for increasing emotional intelligence. The aim of the proposed idea is to help people with Autism that tends to have below average EI to seek normality. The program will use the high IQ of the user to increase his/her EQ. To achieve this, it is intended to develop a program that refuse any miss behavior, or inappropriate attitude. The developed program acts like human, who will not accept to be treated in a specific way. To increase ones EI, people with autism should be trained on: How to deal with people in a way they would accept, how to understand his/her emotion and accept it, and how to express their emotions. The aim of the developed program is to help autism users accept people and be selves accepted. The program should instruct user the program should instruct user how to make friends in the real life.
 
Index Terms—autism, IQ, EQ, E-therapy

Cite: Samaa A. Ahmed and Samir Abou El-Seoud, "Emotion Intelligence Enhancement and Improvement for People with Autism," Journal of Advances in Information Technology, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 29-34, February 2019. doi: 10.12720/jait.10.1.29-34