What is Podium?
Social Impact Mission: Podium’s mission is to improve communication skills by designing engaging technology to help support the employability of individuals with social communication deficits.
Products/Services: Our core technology is data collection and visualization software that provides video analysis and feedback on job interviews (future: classroom presentations, and public speaking) skills to users through measures associated with eye contact, facial expressions, and speech. We are evaluating and scoring users’ video content to create a “standard” one-on-one presentation and interview experience. Our hope is to help in the hiring process for individuals with disabilities or autism.
Our Story
Podium is an engaging software program that allows the user to develop and/or enhance critical soft skills needed for successful occupational and social functioning. These skills include direct eye-contact, verbal presentation, public speaking, enthusiastic delivery of content, and self-awareness. The Podium program offer teachers, therapists, and educational institutions the ability to engage and develop students in need of interviewing, presentation, and related soft skills necessary for work achievement.
Originally conceived of by Danielle Feerst, and built by a team of engineers under her guidance, the Podium software was formed and co-founded by Alexandria Trombley, MS candidate at Tufts University. Podium has been tested at MGH Aspire and showcased at Landmark, the Autism Speaks Investment Conference, the Tufts 100K Competition, MassChallenge 2015, the Stanford BASES product design competition in 2014, and Microsoft’s Challenge Cup 2015. AutismSees LLC was founded in 2014 by Danielle Feerst with a mission to improve the world’s communication skills, and donate tech resources for data tracking in social psychology back to the autism community.
Social Impact Mission: Podium’s mission is to improve communication skills by designing engaging technology to help support the employability of individuals with social communication deficits.
Products/Services: Our core technology is data collection and visualization software that provides video analysis and feedback on job interviews (future: classroom presentations, and public speaking) skills to users through measures associated with eye contact, facial expressions, and speech. We are evaluating and scoring users’ video content to create a “standard” one-on-one presentation and interview experience. Our hope is to help in the hiring process for individuals with disabilities or autism.
Our Story
Podium is an engaging software program that allows the user to develop and/or enhance critical soft skills needed for successful occupational and social functioning. These skills include direct eye-contact, verbal presentation, public speaking, enthusiastic delivery of content, and self-awareness. The Podium program offer teachers, therapists, and educational institutions the ability to engage and develop students in need of interviewing, presentation, and related soft skills necessary for work achievement.
Originally conceived of by Danielle Feerst, and built by a team of engineers under her guidance, the Podium software was formed and co-founded by Alexandria Trombley, MS candidate at Tufts University. Podium has been tested at MGH Aspire and showcased at Landmark, the Autism Speaks Investment Conference, the Tufts 100K Competition, MassChallenge 2015, the Stanford BASES product design competition in 2014, and Microsoft’s Challenge Cup 2015. AutismSees LLC was founded in 2014 by Danielle Feerst with a mission to improve the world’s communication skills, and donate tech resources for data tracking in social psychology back to the autism community.
