Research advances of eye tracking technology in children with autism spectrum disorder

XU Jinbo; HAN Hui; SHI Lei; TONG Guanglei

doi:10.16766/j.cnki.issn.1674-4152.003173

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XU Jinbo, HAN Hui, SHI Lei, TONG Guanglei. Research advances of eye tracking technology in children with autism spectrum disorder[J]. Chinese Journal of General Practice, 2023, 21(9): 1571-1575. doi: 10.16766/j.cnki.issn.1674-4152.003173

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XU Jinbo, HAN Hui, SHI Lei, TONG Guanglei. Research advances of eye tracking technology in children with autism spectrum disorder[J]. Chinese Journal of General Practice, 2023, 21(9): 1571-1575. doi: 10.16766/j.cnki.issn.1674-4152.003173

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Research advances of eye tracking technology in children with autism spectrum disorder

doi: 10.16766/j.cnki.issn.1674-4152.003173

XU Jinbo¹
, HAN Hui²
, SHI Lei¹
, TONG Guanglei^{1
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Department of Rehabilitation, Anhui Hospital Affiliated to the Pediatric Hospital of Fudan University/National Children ' s Regional Medical Centre, Hefei, Anhui 230051, China

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Received Date: 2022-11-06
Available Online: 2023-10-19

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorder whose core symptoms are social deficits, narrow interests, and repetitive stereotype-like behaviors. Abnormal eye fixation is one of the clinical symptoms and early behavioral markers in children with ASD. Eye movement characteristics of children with ASD differ significantly from those of normally developing children, mainly in terms of reduced or absent visual gaze to socially attributed stimuli. Analysis of eye movement characteristics can provide an objective indicator for ASD research. Eye tracking (ET) technology is a new objective and non-invasive examination technique that can visually and accurately observe visual gaze duration and time allocation, and can provide more accurate and sensitive measurements of social attention, restricted interest, and emotion recognition in children with ASD. It has become a research hotspot in the field of ASD. In early identification screening, ET can understand and assess the early behavioral development of children with ASD and serve as one of the pathways for early identification screening. In diagnosis, ET combines subjective behavioral observations with objective behavioral indicators. In treatment, ET can assist in developing individualized intervention plans. In analyzing prognosis, ET can serve as a predictive tool for symptom severity. The application of ET in early screening and identification, early diagnosis, early intervention and treatment, prognosis analysis and the research progress of the neural mechanism of eye movement in children with ASD are summarized. Future research should further explore the neural mechanisms of eye movements in children with ASD and combine ET with 5G technology, virtual technology, and robotics to expand the application of ET and provide new ideas and methods for the exploration of the etiology and rehabilitation treatment of ASD.
- Autism spectrum disorder,
- Eye tracking,
- Visual attention,
- Early identification,
- Children

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