Teen builds app Kora to help autistic children understand emotions

A high school student from New Jersey, Shashank Madala, witnessed adults misinterpreting the emotional signals of his autistic cousin during family gatherings. At fifteen, with just one computer science class under his belt, he taught himself machine learning and built the free app Kora. The app offers caregivers multiple possible interpretations of emotions (happy, sad, angry, scared, neutral) via a...