What if a video game could tell you exactly where a child is looking, and use that data to drive learning?

Join us for PEBBL's July Research Spotlight, where we're sharing findings from five consecutive case studies on Lookware, a video game-based program that combines ABA strategies with gaze-contingent eye-tracking technology to target emotion recognition and visual behavior in children with ASD.

Eyes on the Game: Using Video Game-Based Therapy to Build Emotion Recognition and Gaze Skills in Children with ASD

0.5 Learning CEU

Presenters: Lauren Kryzak D'Amato, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA, LABA | Vice President, PEBBL
Robert K. Ross, EdD, BCBA-D, LABA, CPBA-AP | Vice President, Clinical Development and Integration

What This Session Covers

Five participants, ages 4 to 8, engaged in 25 to 30-minute sessions across Visual Behavior and Emotion Recognition modules. The software applied differential reinforcement, prompting, fading, and behavioral momentum, automatically adjusting difficulty based on performance.

The data tell an interesting story. Participants improved emotion recognition accuracy as difficulty increased. Heatmap data showed greater face fixation during successful versus unsuccessful trials. And pre-response pupil dilation emerged as a predictive indicator of response accuracy, a novel finding with real implications for how we think about discrimination responding.

What You'll Learn

• How ABA strategies are embedded inside a video game format to target emotion recognition and gaze behavior
• How to interpret eye-tracking outcome data, including gaze duration, accuracy, and pupil diameter change, to inform individualized programming
• Where this research is headed next, including joint attention measurement, generalization assessment development, and pupil dilation as a predictive tool

Short. Applied. A genuine first look at where digital therapeutics and ABA practice intersect.

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