Simulating Social Interaction to Address Deficits of Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Children

Trepagnier, Cheryl; Sebrechts, Marc M.; Finkelmeyer, Andreas; Stewart, Willie; Woodford, Jordana; Coleman, Maya

doi:10.1089/cpb.2006.9.213

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“…Trepagnier et al (2006) used an eye tracking system to detect when participants made eye contact with virtual agents that addressed them. Dratsch et al (2013) designed an experiment to assess gaze following abilities that was also based on virtual avatars reacting to the participants' gaze via an eye-tracker.…”

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Methods Investigating How Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Spontaneously Attend to Social Events

Hochhauser

Grynszpan

2016

Rev J Autism Dev Disord

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It has been recognized that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show discrepancies between their abstract capacities to solve social cognition dilemmas and their ability to spontaneously decipher live social interactions. In the last 15 years, different paradigms have been designed to investigate how individuals with ASD grasp information when emerged in naturalistic or live social interactions. The present paper reviews three categories of such paradigms that focus on (1) verbal questionnaires and interviews while participants view a naturalistic social scenario, (2) eye tracking methods while participants view naturalistic settings, and (3) simulation of social interactions using virtual reality or robotics. This paper discusses the advantages and limitations of each paradigm and suggests a new concept for combining these paradigms.

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Section: Blive^interaction Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods Investigating How Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Spontaneously Attend to Social Events

Hochhauser

Grynszpan

2016

Rev J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Given the importance of engagement, viewing patterns [5], [17] , and psychophysiology [18], developing a gaze-sensitive VR-based system for ASD intervention that can provide individualized feedback based on a child’s real-time gaze pattern and can potentially elicit changes in engagement level, behavioral viewing, and eye physiological indexes of the child can be critical. This can be a step towards achieving realistic social interaction to challenge, and scaffold skill development in particular areas of vulnerability for these children.…”

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“…To understand the social communication vulnerabilities of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), research has examined how they process salient social cues, specifically from faces [4]. The ability to derive socially relevant information from faces is a fundamental skill for facilitating reciprocal social interactions [5]. However, individuals with ASD exhibit poor eye contact during social communication in which they tend to fixate less towards human faces and more towards other objects within visual stimulus [6].…”

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Design of a Gaze-Sensitive Virtual Social Interactive System for Children With Autism

Lahiri

Warren

Sarkar

2011

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

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Impairments in social communication skills are thought to be core deficits in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In recent years, several assistive technologies, particularly Virtual Reality (VR), have been investigated to promote social interactions in this population. It is well known that children with ASD demonstrate atypical viewing patterns during social interactions and thus monitoring eye-gaze can be valuable to design intervention strategies. While several studies have used eye-tracking technology to monitor eye-gaze for offline analysis, there exists no real-time system that can monitor eye-gaze dynamically and provide individualized feedback. Given the promise of VR-based social interaction and the usefulness of monitoring eye-gaze in real-time, a novel VR-based dynamic eye-tracking system is developed in this work. This system, called Virtual Interactive system with Gaze-sensitive Adaptive Response Technology (VIGART), is capable of delivering individualized feedback based on a child’s dynamic gaze patterns during VR-based interaction. Results from a usability study with six adolescents with ASD are presented that examines the acceptability and usefulness of VIGART. The results in terms of improvement in behavioral viewing and changes in relevant eye physiological indexes of participants while interacting with VIGART indicate the potential of this novel technology.

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“…during tasks. Such a capability may enable the development of intelligent systems capable of providing real-time adaptations that greatly bolster improvements in the core areas of deficit related to ASD [6]–[8]. …”

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Design of a Virtual Reality Based Adaptive Response Technology for Children With Autism

Lahiri

Bekele

Dohrmann

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate potent impairments in social communication skills including atypical viewing patterns during social interactions. Recently, several assistive technologies, particularly virtual reality (VR), have been investigated to address specific social deficits in this population. Some studies have coupled eye-gaze monitoring mechanisms to design intervention strategies. However, presently available systems are designed to primarily chain learning via aspects of one’s performance only which affords restricted range of individualization. The presented work seeks to bridge this gap by developing a novel VR-based interactive system with Gaze-sensitive adaptive response technology that can seamlessly integrate VR-based tasks with eye-tracking techniques to intelligently facilitate engagement in tasks relevant to advancing social communication skills. Specifically, such a system is capable of objectively identifying and quantifying one’s engagement level by measuring real-time viewing patterns, subtle changes in eye physiological responses, as well as performance metrics in order to adaptively respond in an individualized manner to foster improved social communication skills among the participants. The developed system was tested through a usability study with eight adolescents with ASD. The results indicate the potential of the system to promote improved social task performance along with socially-appropriate mechanisms during VR-based social conversation tasks.

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Simulating Social Interaction to Address Deficits of Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Children

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

Methods Investigating How Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Spontaneously Attend to Social Events

Methods Investigating How Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Spontaneously Attend to Social Events

Design of a Gaze-Sensitive Virtual Social Interactive System for Children With Autism

Design of a Virtual Reality Based Adaptive Response Technology for Children With Autism

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