TY - GEN
T1 - Wearable smart glasses for assessment of eye-contact behavior in children with autism
AU - RajKumar, Ashwin
AU - Arora, Chetan
AU - Katz, Barry
AU - Kapila, Vikram
N1 - Funding Information:
§ This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under DRK-12 Grant DRL-1417769, RET Site Grant EEC-1542286, and ITEST Grant DRL-1614085 and the NY Space Grant Consortium under Grant 48240-7887.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 ASME
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - To promote eye contact learning and behavior in children with autism, there exist specialized environments as well as smartphone applications. However, few currently available techniques support the assessment of desired behavioral improvement during learning. In this paper, we describe recently developed wearable smart glasses instrumented with mechatronic sensors and controllers. The mechatronics glasses, worn by both an instructor and a child, quantitatively measure the eye contact behavior of the child. The instructor glasses connect with a smartphone application through Bluetooth low energy. A user interface is created and hosted on the smartphone to enable the instructor to customize the reward to the child based on improvements in eye contact behavior. Specifically, the smartphone application quantifies the eye contact duration, frequency, latency, and session time, allowing instructors, therapists, and clinicians to monitor and track the child’s progress in eye contact behavior. The results from preliminary user testing of the device with control subjects show that the device is capable of recording sessions details and supporting eye contact behavior assessment.
AB - To promote eye contact learning and behavior in children with autism, there exist specialized environments as well as smartphone applications. However, few currently available techniques support the assessment of desired behavioral improvement during learning. In this paper, we describe recently developed wearable smart glasses instrumented with mechatronic sensors and controllers. The mechatronics glasses, worn by both an instructor and a child, quantitatively measure the eye contact behavior of the child. The instructor glasses connect with a smartphone application through Bluetooth low energy. A user interface is created and hosted on the smartphone to enable the instructor to customize the reward to the child based on improvements in eye contact behavior. Specifically, the smartphone application quantifies the eye contact duration, frequency, latency, and session time, allowing instructors, therapists, and clinicians to monitor and track the child’s progress in eye contact behavior. The results from preliminary user testing of the device with control subjects show that the device is capable of recording sessions details and supporting eye contact behavior assessment.
KW - Assessment
KW - Autism spectrum disorder
KW - Eye contact behavior
KW - Wearable glasses
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U2 - 10.1115/DMD2019-3221
DO - 10.1115/DMD2019-3221
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
BT - Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
Y2 - 15 April 2019 through 18 April 2019
ER -