For grown-ups
What your child practices
CueLab builds cue-reading literacy. For a long time people believed each emotion had one universal face. Modern research (Lisa Feldman Barrett; Hillel Aviezer’s body-context experiments) showed that isn’t so — the SAME face reads as very different feelings depending on the body, the voice, and what just happened. Your child runs those experiments on cast characters, then meets the clue ladder scientists use, whose top rung is the strongest clue of all: you can just ask.
No camera, ever
This is important: CueLab has no camera and no face capture. Every face is a small cast picture (an emoji), never your child’s face or anyone else’s. There is nothing to point a camera at, and nothing to analyse. There is no microphone either.
A map, not a mood tracker
The cases are fixed story data — never a record of your child. Nothing your child reads or chooses is saved; there is no diary and no history. Choosing the face-alone reading is never marked “wrong” — CueLab simply shows which clue actually settled it, so your child learns to read the whole scene.
Honest about what it is
CueLab builds literacy about how feelings are read; it is not therapy and does not measure or diagnose anyone. The strongest, kindest move it teaches is a real one — when you’re unsure how someone feels, ask them. The crisis resources below are always one tap away.
Our privacy promise
CueLab Play is free, works offline, and collects nothing. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no microphone, no camera; nothing your child reads ever leaves this device. Only which experiments have been played is saved, only in this browser.