Social Referencing Gaze Behavior During a Videogame Task: Eye Tracking Evidence from Children With and Without ASD
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Benjamin Hickerson, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to understand the social referencing behaviors of children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) while visually attending to a videogame stimulus depicting both the face of the videogame player and the videogame play action. Videogames appear to offer a uniquely well-suited environment for the emergence of friendships, but it is not known if children with and without ASD attend to and play videogames similarly. Eyetracking technology was used to investigate visual attention of participants matched based on chronological age. Parametric and nonparametric statistical analyses were used and results indicated the groups did not differ on percentage of time spent visually attending to any of the areas of interest, with one possible exception.
Social Referencing Gaze Behavior During a Videogame Task: Eye Tracking Evidence from Children With and Without ASD
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(2), 415-423
- Language: English
- Date: 2017
- Keywords
- Videogames, Eyetracking, Social referencing, Autism