A gaze contingent environment for fostering social attention in autistic children

Authors:
Rameshsharma Ramloll;Cheryl Trepagnier;Marc Sebrechts;Andreas Finkelmeyer
Affiliations:
National Rehabilitation Hospital, 102 Irving St., NW, Washington DC;Department of Psychology, The Catholic University of America, 4001 Harewood Rd., NE, DC;Department of Psychology, The Catholic University of America, 4001 Harewood Rd., NE, DC;Department of Psychology, The Catholic University of America, 4001 Harewood Rd., NE, DC
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2004 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper documents the engineering of a gaze contingent therapeutic environment for the exploration and validation of a proposed rehabilitative technique addressing attention deficits in 24 to 54 months old autistic subjects. It discusses the current state of progress and lessons learnt so far while highlighting the outstanding engineering challenges of this project. We focus on calibration issues for this target group of users, explain the architecture of the system and present our general workflow for the construction of the gaze contingent environment. While this work is being undertaken for therapeutic purposes, it is likely to be relevant to the construction of gaze contingent displays for entertainment.