Virtual Reality Social Cognition Training for children with high functioning autism

Didehbani, Nyaz; Allen, Tandra T.; Kandalaft, Michelle R.; Krawczyk, Daniél C.; Chapman, Sandra B.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.04.033

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“…Some studies did use such virtual reality systems/devices [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. However, many studies used conventional computer monitors to display virtual reality scenes with one or more avatars [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. Hence, there is certain degree of overlap between the virtual reality based presentation mode and the conventional computer based presentation mode.…”

Section: Virtual Reality Systems/devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

Liu

Zhao

et al. 2017

Applied Sciences

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Abstract:The rapid development of computer and robotic technologies in the last decade is giving hope to perform earlier and more accurate diagnoses of the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and more effective, consistent, and cost-conscious treatment. Besides the reduced cost, the main benefit of using technology to facilitate treatment is that stimuli produced during each session of the treatment can be controlled, which not only guarantees consistency across different sessions, but also makes it possible to focus on a single phenomenon, which is difficult even for a trained professional to perform, and deliver the stimuli according to the treatment plan. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review of research on recent technology-facilitated diagnosis and treat of children and adults with ASD. Different from existing reviews on this topic, which predominantly concern clinical issues, we focus on the engineering perspective of autism studies. All technology facilitated systems used for autism studies can be modeled as human machine interactive systems where one or more participants would constitute as the human component, and a computer-based or a robotic-based system would be the machine component. Based on this model, we organize our review with the following questions: (1) What are presented to the participants in the studies and how are the content and delivery methods enabled by technologies? (2) How are the reactions/inputs collected from the participants in response to the stimuli in the studies? (3) Are the experimental procedure and programs presented to participants dynamically adjustable based on the responses from the participants, and if so, how? and (4) How are the programs assessed?

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Section: Virtual Reality Systems/devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

Liu

Zhao

et al. 2017

Applied Sciences

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“…To mention but a few examples beyond the gaming scene, VR is now widely used in medical applications for physical rehabilitation (Paolini et al, 2013;Baldominos, Saez & Del Pozo, 2015;Draganov & Boumbarov, 2015;Morel et al, 2015;Donati et al, 2016;Shokur et al, 2016), exposure therapy for phobias and post-traumatic stress (Notzon et al, 2015;Cuperus et al, 2016), treatment for addiction (Park et al, 2016) and even autism (Didehbani et al, 2016). Other fields such as architecture and urban planning (Portman, Natapov & Fisher-Gewirtzman, 2015;Luigi et al, 2015) and education (Abulrub, Attridge & Williams, 2011) also benefit from the technology.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A method for creating interactive, user-resembling avatars

Silva

Moioli²

2017

PeerJ Computer Science

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Virtual reality (VR) applications have disseminated throughout several fields, with a special quest for immersion. The avatar is one of the key constituents of immersive applications, and avatar resemblance can provoke diverse emotional responses from the user. Yet a lot a virtual reality systems struggle to implement real life-like avatars. In this work, we propose a novel method for creating interactive, user-resembling avatars using available commercial hardware and software. Avatar visualization is possible with a point-cloud or a contiguous polygon surface, and avatar interactions with the virtual scenario happens through a body joint-approximation for contact. In addition, the implementation could be easily extended to other systems and its modular architecture admits improvement both on visualization and physical interactions. The code is under Apache License 2.0 and is freely available as Supplemental Information 1 in this article.

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“…Recent research works, such as the one undertaken by Wallace et al [43], have stressed the need to provide environments with greater realism, since that would allow children with ASDs to perceive the negative responses, which are sent to them by the environment, thus helping them to enhance their social skills. The current study performed by Lorenzo et al [44] constitutes an advance with respect to what has hitherto been reviewed; it stresses the fact that the immersive virtual environments designed to work on emotional competences with ASD students have permited a high degree of interactivity, along with a chance for the training of social roles which are represented in emotional scripts prepared like social stories. Their indings have similarly revealed medium rates for the transfer of learning from the virtual environment to real situations.…”

Section: Review Of the Literature On Virtual Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As for new research initiatives, the work undertaken by Lorenzo et al [44]-which continues along the lines of investigations already initiated with immersive reality-transfers their contributions to the training and development of tasks such as the recognition of emotions amongst students diagnosed with ASDs. These authors prepared social scripts as well as situations in the style of social stories that these students had to identify and solve in immersive learning environments.…”

Section: Virtual Reality Systems Developed In Learning Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Environments are designed in a personal computer that provides a stronger feeling of immersive thanks to its being equipped with a set of loudspeakers-which the 3D glasses used by Lorenzo et al [44] did not have. The authors mentioned above point out that the ASD children readily accepted the OCULUS glasses to work and were additionally able to solve the tasks proposed successfully.…”

Section: Virtual Reality Systems Developed In Learning Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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New Educational Challenges and Innovations: Students with Disability in Immersive Learning Environments

Lledó¹,

Lorenzo-Lledó‬²,

Martínez-Roig³

et al. 2016

Virtual Learning

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In today society, one of the most demanded challenges faced by the current educational system is the educational response to diversity in the various educational contexts. University lecturers are opening new lines of research focused on issues as social demand and current reality of produced new learning environments. The general aim of this study was to design learning environments using immersive virtual reality and evaluate improvements produced by this tool in relation to the diiculties show by the participants. From that point, an action plan was created to recreate school situations with a high degree of realism and interaction using IVRSystem. In this way, we want to obtain answers according to the dysfunctions of educational system to work with these students. This was done by a mixed design. On the one hand, a quasi-experimental methodology was used with a control group and an experimental group. On the other hand, direct and observation and applicative methodology made possible the development of educational intervention in immersive learning environments. The results obtained throughout these years have given a response to the initial problem-question raised: Can immersive virtual learning environments serve as a support tool for working disabilities of students, which have a visual learning style, such as students with autism spectrum disorders?

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Virtual Reality Social Cognition Training for children with high functioning autism

Cited by 351 publications

References 47 publications

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

A method for creating interactive, user-resembling avatars

New Educational Challenges and Innovations: Students with Disability in Immersive Learning Environments

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