Design of a virtual reality based adaptive response technology for children with autism spectrum disorder

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6974 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 165-174

  Lahiri, Uttama ^a   Bekele, Esubalew ^b   Dohrmann, Elizabeth ^c   Warren, Zachary ^b   Sarkar, Nilanjan ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder; engagement; eye tracking; social communication; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; ENGAGEMENT; EYE TRACKING SYSTEMS; EYE-GAZE; EYE-TRACKING; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; SOCIAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TASK PERFORMANCE; USABILITY STUDIES;

DISEASES; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; SOCIAL SCIENCES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 80054832341     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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