Welcome to my Swift Student Challenge 2025 submission! Click to check out the demo.

Emotionpedia is an interactive app that helps autistic children understand and manage their emotions in a fun and intuitive way. Designed with accessibility in mind: no sensory overload! Engaging activities with soft colors, simple layouts, clear language, and optional sound toggles make everything easy to process. :)

It focuses on two main emotions: happiness and anger.

🔍 What does the app do?

• Exploring situations: Kids explore different scenarios, tapping on objects to see how they might trigger emotions.
• Mimicking expressions: Using ARKit, they practice facial expressions. The app tracks key facial features (eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth) and gives real-time feedback on accuracy!
• Expressing and managing: Fun activities help with emotional expression and regulation. Happy? Clap along with the music: Vision-based hand tracking ensures it works even with soft claps! Angry? Blow into the mic to pop virtual soap bubbles!
• Reward system: After completing an emotion cycle, RealityKit displays a snapshot taken during facial tracking. It can be saved or printed as a study card!
• Pause and Breathe: A break button triggers a guided counting exercise using Apple’s Speech framework for overwhelming moments.

👩🏻‍💻 Technologies used

SwiftUI, Combine, CoreText, ARKit, RealityKit, Vision, AVFoundation, Speech.

🤝 Third-party content credits

🎵 Sound Effects:

• "Success" sound by Andy Rhode: freesound.org/s/320657/ (Attribution 3.0 License)
• "Tap" sound by Saroop Daiya: freesound.org/s/718438/ (Creative Commons 0)

🔤 Fonts:

• Gribouille by Célia Astori: dafont.com/gribouille-2.font
• Handwriting by user "athy!!": dafont.com/handwriting-16.font
• Cutesy by Jeron Aguinaldo: dafont.com/cutesy.font

🎉 Confetti animation:

• Based on a tutorial by Jared Cassoutt: medium.com/@jaredcassoutt

🖥️ External code:

• Font registration code by Alessandra Luana Nascimento Pereira (MIT License)

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this code, as long as proper credit is given to the original author.

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Growing up, I realized how life-changing emotional skills can be. As I explored this, I came across the unique challenges that many autistic children face in recognizing and managing emotions. That's how Emotionpedia was born, and creating it felt like a big hug. 🫂

Made by Vitória Beltrão Wenceslau do Ó for the Swift Student Challenge (and for life <3). 🍎