This week the design team worked on the app for ASD students. I did further research into Dr. Paul Ekman’s six universal emotions and created a series of hand sketches that conveyed them while also bearing in mind the limitations of Robot-Head’s design, primarily its inability to turn the corners of its mouth. After we agreed that we didn’t properly convey happy, sad, and fearful expressions, I re-worked them to include smiles and frowns. After we decided on the final designs, I inked my original pencil sketches and we scanned them in to create our app. We then discussed how to re-design Robot-Head’s mouth so that it could smile and frown more convincingly. I also researched what the most psychologically relaxing colors were in deciding a background color for our app. I then expanded my paper to include a section on how apps are used with autistic children and found that our project is the first to include an app centering on emotion recognition with robots.