Academics
CueLab
Same face, different body, different room - different feeling? The same wide-eyed face means DELIGHT over a longed-for gift and FEAR at a crash in the dark. CueLab runs the experiments that showed faces aren't readouts (Barrett; Aviezer): you read the body, the voice and what just happened, then meet the clue ladder scientists actually use - and its top rung, the best clue of all: just ask. Corvid the raven reads the whole scene, never only the face. No camera, ever. Ages 9-14.
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Meet the cast
CueLab is the 9-14 cue science - how you read what someone ELSE feels. Corvid the raven is the hero: it reads the WHOLE scene (body, voice, what just happened), never only the face - reading every cue together is Corvid. The companions each embody one part of the science: the face that isn't a readout, the voice, the situation, and the best clue of all, asking. There is NO camera (faces are cast pictures only), and nothing a learner reads is ever saved (map, not log).
Corvid
Reads the whole scene - a raven that weighs the body, the voice and what just happened all at once, and is never fooled by a face alone; reading every cue together is Corvid.
Sable
The face is not a readout - a single black expression that reads as DELIGHT in one scene and FEAR in the next; embodies the Barrett/Aviezer finding that the SAME face means different things in different contexts.
Timbre
The voice cue - tone, speed and volume; embodies how much of a feeling rides in HOW something is said, a stronger clue than the face alone.
Weathervane
What just happened - points to which way the situation blew; embodies the situation cue, usually the biggest clue of all to what someone is likely feeling.
Askance
Just ask (the best clue) - to look askance is to question; embodies the top rung of the clue ladder: you don't have to guess a feeling, you can ask, kindly.
What's inside
Learning goal
Same face, different body, different room - different feeling? The same wide-eyed face means DELIGHT over a longed-for gift and FEAR at a crash in the dark. CueLab runs the experiments that showed faces aren't readouts (Barrett; Aviezer): you read the body, the voice and what just happened, then meet the clue ladder scientists actually use - and its top rung, the best clue of all: just ask. Corvid the raven reads the whole scene, never only the face. No camera, ever. Ages 9-14.
How CueLab handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages