Using Serious Game Technology to Improve Sensitivity to Eye Gaze in Autism



Status:Completed
Conditions:Neurology, Psychiatric, Autism
Therapuetic Areas:Neurology, Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:10 - 18
Updated:10/13/2018
Start Date:August 2016
End Date:October 2018

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria
The investigators hypothesize that this serious game (designed to provide a learning
environment that maximizes opportunities for adolescents with autism to discover the
functional utility of eye gaze) will improve sensitivity to eye gaze cues, specifically to
identify gazed-at objects, and will also lead to increased social attention to faces in
adolescents with autism. The investigators will test this hypothesis in a small-scale
exploratory randomized control trial that will include both behavioral and eye tracking
outcome measures.


Inclusion criteria:

1. parent/caregiver of an adolescent with a diagnosis of ASD,

2. parent/caregiver and adolescent with ASD both native English speakers,

3. adolescent with ASD aged between 10-18 years at enrollment,

4. adolescent has normal vision and hearing with correction as indicated by parent
report,

5. adolescent is able to use a computer for the purposes of game play,

6. adolescent scores > 80% correct (i.e., 0.5 SD less than M of TD adolescents) on online
eye gaze screening task,

7. ASD diagnosis of adolescent confirmed in lab via the Autism Diagnostic Observation
Schedule,

8. Full Scale IQ of adolescent determined to be between 70-130 on the Kaufman Brief
Intelligence Test,

9. reading ability of adolescent determined to be at least a second grade level as
assessed by the Oral and Written Language Scales,

10. adolescent is capable of cooperating with testing,

11. parent/caregiver and adolescent both consent/assent to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria

1. adolescent has had seizures within the previous two years,

2. family lacks stable home internet,

3. parent or adolescent refuses to consent/assent to take part in the research,

4. adolescent is 18 and has a legal guardian, prohibiting him/her from legally
consenting, or

5. adolescent is 18 and cannot understand the consent (i.e., fails consent quiz).
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Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania 16801
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