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Eye contact is among the most substantial yet underrated non-verbal social communicative behaviors. Establishing and maintaining eye contact is quite challenging for children affected by social impairment. As a solution, we propose a virtual reality serious game to help improve eye gaze abilities for these children and facilitate the transfer of the acquired skills to real-world social interactions. The project comprised of the design, implementation and evaluation of a three levels game that emphasizes on different aspects of eye contact. According to the evaluation carried out in this research, a virtual reality gaming context is a promising strategy for gaze development of children with social deficiencies.
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A term used to denote people who are not on the autism spectrum.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder which is a disorder characterized by symptoms such as inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.
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Elgarf, M., Abdennadher, S., Elshahawy, M. (2017). I-Interact: A Virtual Reality Serious Game for Eye Contact Improvement for Children with Social Impairment. In: Alcañiz, M., Göbel, S., Ma, M., Fradinho Oliveira, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Marsh, T. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10622. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70111-0_14
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