Welcome
Your reading helps build better emotional support tools.
MindLens Lab is a research project working toward future learning tools for autistic children and others who find emotion hard to read or exchange. Today, those tools are mostly trained on a “single correct answer” assumption. We don't think there is one — your reading is one of many, and we want yours. Thank you for taking the 10–15 minutes.
Ready when you are
How it works
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Watch a short clip
A curated 15–30 second moment. We tell you whose reaction to focus on.
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Read the emotion
Pick what you read on their face, which cues you used, and how confident you are.
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See how others read it
After you commit, you'll see how peers and one AI read the same moment.
Three things to know before we begin
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This is research, not a personal emotion test.
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There are no right or wrong answers. Your reading is your reading.
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You contribute to research that may eventually inform learning tools for autistic learners and others who find emotion hard to read.
Why your reading matters
Today's emotion-recognition AI is mostly trained on single-labeller datasets — as if everyone agreed on what a face is showing. Tools built on that foundation can teach autistic children (and others) the wrong model. The data you contribute helps replace that with a foundation grounded in real human variance.
Why your reading matters▾
Today's emotion-recognition AI is mostly trained on single-labeller datasets — as if everyone agreed on what a face is showing. Tools built on that foundation can teach autistic children (and others) the wrong model. The data you contribute helps replace that with a foundation grounded in real human variance.