{"id":33278,"date":"2017-01-08T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/empathy-kit-to-help-users-better-understand-autism"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:21:29","slug":"empathy-kit-to-help-users-better-understand-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/empathy-kit-to-help-users-better-understand-autism","title":{"rendered":"Empathy kit to help users better understand autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/empathy-kit-to-help-users-better-understand-autism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This kit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/royal-college-of-art\/\">Royal College of Art<\/a> graduate Heeju Kim uses sweets to recreate the tongue-tying experience of living with autism. Kim created three tools and a <a href=\"http:\/\/dezeen.com\/tag\/apps\">mobile application<\/a> as part of the project, which is titled An Empathy Bridge for Autism.<\/p>\n<p>A set of six awkwardly shaped lollipops and candies impede tongue movement in various ways. They make it hard for users to hold a conversation, conveying how unclear pronunciation has an impact on autistic individuals.<\/p>\n<p>An augmented-reality headset is worn over the eyes and connects to a smartphone to alter the user\u2019s perception of what\u2019s in front of them. It restricts the view of their periphery, gives them double vision or obscures their focus with a patch of black.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2017\/01\/08\/heeju-kim-emapthy-bridge-kit-help-users-understand-autism-augmented-reality-candy\/\">https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2017\/01\/08\/heeju-kim-emapthy-bridge-k...ity-candy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kit by Royal College of Art graduate Heeju Kim uses sweets to recreate the tongue-tying experience of living with autism. Kim created three tools and a mobile application as part of the project, which is titled An Empathy Bridge for Autism. A set of six awkwardly shaped lollipops and candies impede tongue movement in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59233,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions\/59233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}