A gaze contingent environment for fostering social attention in autistic children

Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium (ETRA)

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 19-26

  Ramloll, Rameshsharma ^a   Trepagnier, Cheryl ^b   Sebrechts, Marc ^b   Finkelmeyer, Andreas ^b  

^a NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Design workflow; Eye tracker calibration; Gaze contingent environment

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CAMERAS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MICROPHONES; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AUTISM; DESIGN WORKFLOW; EYE TRACKER CALIBRATION; GAZE CONTINGENT ENVIRONMENT;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 2442553979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/968363.968367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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