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CompletedNCT02968225

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

Status
Completed
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40 (actual)
Sponsor
Penn State University · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
10 Years – 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALComputer GameThe game involves viewing subtle nonverbal behaviors of game characters for the purpose of executing their own goal-directed behavior in the game related to solving various crimes. The learning involves interpreting nonverbal cues on the animated characters, such as pointing, head turns, eye gaze cues.

Timeline

Start date
2016-08-01
Primary completion
2018-10-01
Completion
2018-10-01
First posted
2016-11-18
Last updated
2021-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02968225. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.