Nonverbal Kids Genesis Assistive Biometrics

Say hello to the cat

Tap once. The camera turns on, a cat appears on your face, and you wave hello.

No sign-up. The picture stays on this device and is never saved.

Who this is for

This is a free, charitable research prototype from Genesis Lab Foundation. It is built for children who are nonverbal or minimally verbal, and for the adults who spend the day trying to understand them.

For the child

A calm cat mask on their own face in a mirror, and one small quest they can finish. No reading, no typing, no timer running out.

For the parent or carer

A shared activity you can run in a minute, plus a plain view of what the camera noticed. Every reading is a prompt for you to confirm, never a verdict.

For teachers and therapists

An open, inspectable baseline you can challenge. The full telemetry, evidence and labelling tools live in the research lab.

What it does

  • Runs entirely in this browser, on this device.
  • Reads face, hands, body and sound in memory only.
  • Offers possible feelings and wants for an adult to confirm.
  • Stores no video, no audio, no biometric templates by default.

What it is not

  • No diagnosis, and no autonomous medical decisions.
  • No hidden surveillance, and no biometric identity database.
  • No claim that a facial expression equals what a child truly feels inside.
  • Not a medical device and not a replacement for clinical evaluation, your own judgement, or emergency care.

Research prototype. The reading layer is a transparent heuristic baseline. It can be wrong, and it is less reliable in poor light, at odd camera angles, and when a child is distressed or partly hidden. Treat everything it shows as a question, not a fact.

The first quest: wave hello

One step, one movement, and it ends in a win every single time. The quest recognises a wave — a movement anyone can see — rather than an emotion, because no camera is entitled to grade how a child feels.

Progress only goes up

Stop for a minute, look away, come back — nothing is lost. There is no fail state to reach and no countdown a child can watch run out.

Do it together counts the same

If the movement is hard, a grown-up finishes it with them. The ending is identical — same celebration, no asterisk, nothing logged as a miss.

Generous on purpose

Any sustained movement in the upper part of the frame is accepted, so a child with limited motor control can clear it without a perfect gesture.

For the grown-up

While your child plays, you see the same screen they do. Nothing is hidden behind a password, and nothing about the session leaves the device unless you choose to send it.

What you will see

Before you use it with a child

  • Explain in plain words what the camera is doing.
  • Ask the child, in whatever way they answer, and accept a no.
  • Stop the moment they want to stop. Closing the tab ends everything.

Telegram summaries for parents

Planned: a short daily note — how many quests were finished, how long the stage was open, and when. Never video, never photos, never raw biometrics. Off by default, and it will always take a deliberate opt-in.

Off · not built yet

Where the pictures go

Nowhere. The video stream is read frame by frame inside this browser tab and thrown away. There is no upload, no account, no analytics on this page, and no biometric hash kept anywhere. Close the tab and the session is gone.

Help us keep building it

Genesis Assistive Biometrics is free and open source, and it stays that way. If it was useful to your family, a small monthly gift is what keeps the research going.

Support monthly Give once Follow the channel

Tribute handles the payment inside Telegram, so there is no card form here and nothing for us to store. Sharing this page with one other family helps just as much.