AboutFace

Join SocialQ for the Launch of AboutFace - October 2025

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Join SocialQ for the Launch of AboutFace - October 2025 ☆

SocialQ is proud to offer AboutFace

  • AboutFace is a tool designed to study how humans, especially those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), perceive non-verbal communication cues.

  • AboutFace is designed primarily as a Research Tool to demonstrate that Mirroring Exercises using AboutFace improve Users’ ability to recognize non-verbal communication cues and appropriately and mindfully empathize with others’ emotions- as told by their Affect

  • Cues are little hints.  Actors use Cue Cards to remind them of their lines.  Humans give verbal cues all the time by speaking, arguing, yelling – so much so that it can get noisy!

  • Our world is also full of Non-Verbal Communication, or unspoken messages sent between people.  This includes Facial Expressions, hand & finger gestures, pheromones, etc. Sometimes we describe the totality of Non-Verbal communication information as “Affect”.

    Some of these messages are hardwired into what makes us human beginning with empathy, morality and spiritual wonder transmitted wordlessly by a nursing mother lovingly gazing into her newborn’s eyes. 

AboutFace

Mirroring, Autism, Empathy & “Reading the Room”

AboutFace was designed for those people, such as many with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), have difficulty picking up non-verbal communication cues. 

  • AboutFace is designed as a Research Tool to demonstrate that Mirroring Exercises using AboutFace can improve Users’ ability to recognize non-verbal communication cues and appropriately celebrate with, empathize with, and be ‘[mindful of others’ emotions as told on their faces!

  • SocialQ believes that we can Train increased perception and understanding of Emotions for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by using Mirroring Training in AboutFace.

  • SocialQ also believes that increased perception and understanding of Emotions leads to a greater overall level of empathy, connectedness and quality of life for people with ASD and their friends and families.

  • Get AboutFace click here to begin.

“Through mirroring, attachment to caregivers helps the immature brain use the mature functions of the parent’s brain to organize its own processes.”
— Dan Siegal

SocialQ needs your help.

Our requests in using About Face:

  1. Have fun - AboutFace is built to educate & train Users to better recognize, mirror, and empathize with the emotions shown in others’ faces - it’s also fun! 

  2. Don’t go easy on us - many people will find the trainings intuitive and the games to be very easy. Careful, some game modes are intentionally tricky. Try to get an A+

  3. Please complete each of the Sections. Please address each Section with earnestness, however easy or difficult it is. 

  4. Help our Mission - Finally, please keep in mind that your participation will be analyzed to improve the tool for its primary intended purpose: as a training tool for adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder to better understand emotions and empathetically connect with others.