@inproceedings{9ad2ee0e0cee4ccf97177ac4316feca9,
title = "Artificial Intelligence-Based Mobile Application for Sensing Children Emotion Through Drawings",
abstract = "Children go through varied emotions such as happiness, sadness, and fear. At times, it may be difficult for children to express their emotions. Detecting and understanding the unexpressed emotions of children is very important to address their needs and prevent mental health issues. In this paper, we develop an artificial intelligence (AI) based Emotion Sensing Recognition App (ESRA) to help parents and teachers understand the emotions of children by analyzing their drawings. We collected 102 drawings from a local school in Doha and 521 drawings from Google and Instagram. Four different experiments were conducted using a combination of the two datasets. The deep learning model was trained using the Fastai library in Python. The model classifies the drawings into positive or negative emotions. The model accuracy ranged from 55% to 79% in the four experiments. This study showed that ESRA has the potential in identifying the emotions of children. However, the underlying algorithm needs to be trained and evaluated using more drawings to improve its current accuracy and to be able to identify more specific emotions.",
keywords = "Artificial Intelligence, Children, Emotion Sensing, Mobile Application",
author = "Nashva Ali and Alaa Abd-Alrazaq and Zubair Shah and Mohannad Alajlani and Tanvir Alam and Mowafa Househ",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The authors and IOS Press.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.3233/SHTI220675",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "118--121",
editor = "John Mantas and Parisis Gallos and Emmanouil Zoulias and Arie Hasman and Househ, {Mowafa S.} and Marianna Diomidous and Joseph Liaskos and Martha Charalampidou",
booktitle = "Advances in Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare",
address = "Netherlands",
}