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

Phase 2

Completed

• Conditions: Autism
• Interventions: Behavioral: Computer Game

• Registration Number: NCT02968225
• Lead Sponsor: Penn State University

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-08
• Study First Submitted: 2016-11-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-11-17
• Study First Posted: 2016-11-18
• Primary Completion: 2018-10
• Study Completion: 2018-10
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-03-03
• Last Update Posted: 2021-03-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Computer Game	Computer Game	All Computer Game participants will complete: * online screening * Diagnostic and eye-tracking pre-testing * 2 month intervention * Eye-tracking post-testing

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Social/Visual Attention Task	2 Months	Eye tracking
Static Eye Gaze Following Task	2 months	Eye tracking and accuracy
Dynamic Eye Gaze Following Task	2 Months	Eye tracking and accuracy

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Treatment as Usual	2 months	Parents reporting on social and behavioral treatments adolescents receiving in and out of school
Social Skills Inventory System - Child version	2 months	Adolescents completing measure of social skills and problem behaviors in themselves
Social Responsiveness Scale	2 months	Parents completing measure of autism-like behavior in adolescents
Social Skills Inventory System - Adult version	2 months	Parents completing measure of social skills and problem behaviors in adolescents

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Pennsylvania State University; 🇺🇸 University Park, Pennsylvania, United States