Daily Living Skills Training in Virtual Reality to Help Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Real Shopping Scenario

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a study conducted to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) applied to daily living skills (DLS) training of individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In collaboration with a teacher at a school for children and adolescents with mental disorders, a head-mounted display based VR simulation of a supermarket was built and valuated with the purpose of developing the shopping skills of students diagnosed with ASD. A comparative between-group experiment was conducted on 9 participants, with initiated VR training following a baseline assessment in a real supermarket. After running seven VR training sessions over 10 days for the treatment group, participants were assessed again in the real supermarket. Results show some benefit of training DLS using VR as discussed in the paper.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR-Adjunct), 2017
Number of pages9
PublisherIEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Publication date9 Oct 2017
Pages294-302
ISBN (Print)978-0-7695-6327-5
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5386-1454-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Oct 2017
Event16th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented
Reality
- Nantes, France
Duration: 9 Oct 201713 Oct 2017

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented
Reality
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNantes
Period09/10/201713/10/2017

Keywords

  • autism spectrum disorder
  • Virtual Reality (VR)
  • adaptive skills training
  • transfer of training
  • virtual environment
  • Solid Modelling
  • comparative study
  • generalization

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