EmotiPlay is the initiative of Compedia, a leading educational technology company, and the Autism Research Lab at Bar-Ilan University, together with the Autism Research Centre (ARC) at the University of Cambridge and the Unit for Pediatric Neuropsychiatry in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The multi-disciplinary research team included world-renowned researchers in the field of autism such as Professors Simon Baron-Cohen, Ofer Golan, and Sven Bolte, and experts in human-machine interaction, as well as ICT-based solution providers.