Project Phase 1 · Emotional Intelligence Lab
How do we read emotion in everyday social moments?
A short, anonymous research session that asks how you read emotion in everyday social moments — and shows you how other participants and one AI read the same moments.
What you'll do
Watch a clip. Read the emotion.
See how others read it too.
Watch short clips
15–30 second moments from real social situations.
Read emotions and cues
Pick what you read on their face and which signals you noticed.
Compare with peers and AI
See the spread of human readings — and one AI's interpretation.
About
Emotional Intelligence Lab — a long-horizon research project.
About the Lab
MindLens Lab is a teen-led research project on emotional intelligence — how people read and exchange emotion in everyday social moments. Founded in 2024, it has been running for about two years, and is planned as a three-to-four-year program of research before any consumer tool is built.
We are building toward future learning tools for people who find emotion difficult to read or exchange — including children and adults on the autism spectrum (ASD), people with selective mutism, social anxiety, and others for whom social-emotional cues can feel illegible.
About this project — Phase 1
Phase 1 is the foundational dataset: collect plural human readings of the same moment, side by side with one AI's reading. We are not training a model or shipping a tool yet — we are establishing a careful, anonymous record of how emotion is actually read in the wild.
Later phases will build on this dataset to study where readers diverge, where AI diverges from people, and which cues carry the signal — the groundwork for the learning tools above.
Your reading is your reading.
No scoring, no leaderboard. Each response joins a research dataset that may eventually inform learning tools for autistic children and others who find emotion hard to read.