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Self-reported sense of presence and responses to social stimuli by adolescents with ASD in a collaborative virtual reality environment

Self-reported sense of presence and responses to social stimuli by adolescents with ASD in a collaborative virtual reality environment
Self-reported sense of presence and responses to social stimuli by adolescents with ASD in a collaborative virtual reality environment
Background Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) have the potential to support socio-communicative interactions for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but little is known about the sense of presence participants feel in CVEs or how CVEs can be used to assess skills.
Method Ten children with ASD and 10 typically developing (TD) children (aged 12-16 years) judged greeting behaviours of a human avatar and static facial expressions in a virtual gallery.
Results There were no differences in presence reported by the two groups. The ASD group were less sensitive to a negative greeting from the human avatar than the TD group, and impaired in recognising static facial expressions.
Conclusions Self-reported measures of presence are valuable for informing which kinds of tasks and technology may provide more authentic contexts in which to identify and support social competence in participants with ASD.
1366-8250
131-141
Wallace, Simon
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Parsons, Sarah
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Bailey, Anthony
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Wallace, Simon
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Parsons, Sarah
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Bailey, Anthony
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Wallace, Simon, Parsons, Sarah and Bailey, Anthony (2017) Self-reported sense of presence and responses to social stimuli by adolescents with ASD in a collaborative virtual reality environment. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 42 (2), 131-141. (doi:10.3109/13668250.2016.1234032).

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Abstract

Background Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) have the potential to support socio-communicative interactions for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but little is known about the sense of presence participants feel in CVEs or how CVEs can be used to assess skills.
Method Ten children with ASD and 10 typically developing (TD) children (aged 12-16 years) judged greeting behaviours of a human avatar and static facial expressions in a virtual gallery.
Results There were no differences in presence reported by the two groups. The ASD group were less sensitive to a negative greeting from the human avatar than the TD group, and impaired in recognising static facial expressions.
Conclusions Self-reported measures of presence are valuable for informing which kinds of tasks and technology may provide more authentic contexts in which to identify and support social competence in participants with ASD.

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Accepted/In Press date: 24 November 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 October 2016
Published date: 27 March 2017
Organisations: Centre for Research in Inclusion

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Local EPrints ID: 384365
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/384365
ISSN: 1366-8250
PURE UUID: e40396da-6a9b-412c-8f23-c11ccd2a73fb
ORCID for Sarah Parsons: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-4745

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Date deposited: 08 Dec 2015 14:21
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:22

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Author: Simon Wallace
Author: Sarah Parsons ORCID iD
Author: Anthony Bailey

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