Do Autistic and Normal Developing Children Behave Differently When They are Presented with Sad Face Emotion

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

2022 9th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE)

Publication Date

3-31-2022

Abstract

This paper compares the visual behavior of normal developing children and autistic children when both groups are presented with human emotion of sad face. We used eye tracking system to capture and tracks the child's eye gaze movements as they watch a short video of a human's dynamic facial expression evolving from static emotion to sad emotion. With the human face, we have created three areas of interests. Our data analysis focused on where specifically in the stimulus the child was looking at, with a significant difference was found between the two groups. The study also reveals that most autistic participants express little interest in the eyes and mouth of a sad facial expression compared to normal developing children, evident by the time spent on off-facial area.

Publisher

IEEE

Volume

00

First Page

350

Last Page

356

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

Keywords

Visualization, Data analysis, Tracking, Face recognition, Mouth, Gaze tracking, Behavioral sciences

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no

Open Access

no

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