A tablet-based game for the assessment of visual motor skills in autistic children.
A tablet-based game for the assessment of visual motor skills in autistic children.
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10.1038/s41746-023-00762-6
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发表时间：
2023-02-03
影响因子：
15.2
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越来越多的证据表明，早期运动障碍是自闭症的一个共同特征。因此，需要可扩展的，定量的方法来测量年轻自闭症儿童的运动行为。这项工作基于平板电脑上管理的泡泡游戏，对视觉运动能力进行了引人入胜且可扩展的评估。参与者是233名年龄从1.5岁到10岁的儿童（147名神经典型儿童和86名被诊断为自闭症谱系障碍[自闭症]的儿童，其中32名还被诊断为同时发生的注意力缺陷/多动障碍[自闭症+ADHD]）。计算机视觉分析用于提取几种基于游戏的触摸特征，这些特征在自闭症，自闭症+ADHD和神经典型参与者之间进行比较。结果表明，年龄较小（1.5-3岁）的自闭症儿童以较低的速度弹出气泡，与神经正常儿童相比，他们触摸气泡中心的能力不太准确。当他们戳破一个泡泡时，他们的手指会停留更长的时间，他们的表现也会表现出更多的变化。在年龄较大的儿童（3-10岁）中，与先前的研究一致，同时发生的ADHD的存在与更大的运动障碍相关，反映在较低的准确性和更多的可变性能。几个运动功能与精细运动和认知能力的标准化评估相关，如通过独立的临床评估所评估的。这些结果突出了基于触摸的游戏作为评估儿童视觉运动技能的有效和可扩展方法的潜力，这可以成为识别与自闭症相关的早期迹象的更广泛筛查工具的一部分。
Increasing evidence suggests that early motor impairments are a common feature of autism. Thus, scalable, quantitative methods for measuring motor behavior in young autistic children are needed. This work presents an engaging and scalable assessment of visual-motor abilities based on a bubble-popping game administered on a tablet. Participants are 233 children ranging from 1.5 to 10 years of age (147 neurotypical children and 86 children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder [autistic], of which 32 are also diagnosed with co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [autistic+ADHD]). Computer vision analyses are used to extract several game-based touch features, which are compared across autistic, autistic+ADHD, and neurotypical participants. Results show that younger (1.5-3 years) autistic children pop the bubbles at a lower rate, and their ability to touch the bubble’s center is less accurate compared to neurotypical children. When they pop a bubble, their finger lingers for a longer period, and they show more variability in their performance. In older children (3-10-years), consistent with previous research, the presence of co-occurring ADHD is associated with greater motor impairment, reflected in lower accuracy and more variable performance. Several motor features are correlated with standardized assessments of fine motor and cognitive abilities, as evaluated by an independent clinical assessment. These results highlight the potential of touch-based games as an efficient and scalable approach for assessing children’s visual-motor skills, which can be part of a broader screening tool for identifying early signs associated with autism.
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DOI：
10.1177/1362361318766247
发表时间：
2019-04
期刊：
Autism : the international journal of research and practice
影响因子：
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作者：
Campbell K;Carpenter KL;Hashemi J;Espinosa S;Marsan S;Borg JS;Chang Z;Qiu Q;Vermeer S;Adler E;Tepper M;Egger HL;Baker JP;Sapiro G;Dawson G
通讯作者：
Dawson G
影响因子：
3
作者：
CURETON, EE
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CURETON, EE
影响因子：
1.7
作者：
Esposito, Gianluca;Venuti, Paola;Muratori, Filippo
通讯作者：
Muratori, Filippo
影响因子：
3.2
作者：
Bhat, Anjana Narayan
通讯作者：
Bhat, Anjana Narayan
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
Dawson G;Campbell K;Hashemi J;Lippmann SJ;Smith V;Carpenter K;Egger H;Espinosa S;Vermeer S;Baker J;Sapiro G
通讯作者：
Sapiro G