Gaze-based Autism Detection for Adolescents and Young Adults using Prosaic Videos

Karan Ahuja; Abhishek Bose; Mohit Jain; Kuntal Dey; Anil Joshi; Krishnaveni Achary; Blessin Varkey; Chris Harrison; Mayank Goel

Gaze-based Autism Detection for Adolescents and Young Adults using Prosaic Videos

Human-Computer Interaction 2020-05-28 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Authors: Karan Ahuja , Abhishek Bose , Mohit Jain , Kuntal Dey , Anil Joshi , Krishnaveni Achary , Blessin Varkey , Chris Harrison , Mayank Goel

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Abstract

Autism often remains undiagnosed in adolescents and adults. Prior research has indicated that an autistic individual often shows atypical fixation and gaze patterns. In this short paper, we demonstrate that by monitoring a user's gaze as they watch commonplace (i.e., not specialized, structured or coded) video, we can identify individuals with autism spectrum disorder. We recruited 35 autistic and 25 non-autistic individuals, and captured their gaze using an off-the-shelf eye tracker connected to a laptop. Within 15 seconds, our approach was 92.5% accurate at identifying individuals with an autism diagnosis. We envision such automatic detection being applied during e.g., the consumption of web media, which could allow for passive screening and adaptation of user interfaces.

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autism detection gaze tracking adolescents young adults prosaic videos eye tracker passive screening

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@article{arxiv.2005.12951,
  title  = {Gaze-based Autism Detection for Adolescents and Young Adults using Prosaic Videos},
  author = {Karan Ahuja and Abhishek Bose and Mohit Jain and Kuntal Dey and Anil Joshi and Krishnaveni Achary and Blessin Varkey and Chris Harrison and Mayank Goel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12951},
  year   = {2020}
}

Gaze-based Autism Detection for Adolescents and Young Adults using Prosaic Videos

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