Immersive Visualizations in a VR Cave Environment for the Training and Enhancement of Social Skills for Children with Autism

Skevi Matsentidou, Charalambos Poullis

2014

Abstract

Autism is a complex developmental disorder characterized by severe impairment in social, communicative, cognitive and behavioral functioning. Several studies investigated the use of technology and Virtual Reality for social skills training for people with autism with promising and encouraging results (D. Strickland, 1997; Parsons S. & Cobb S., 2011). In addition, it has been demonstrated that Virtual Reality technologies can be used effectively by some people with autism, and that it had helped or could help them in the real world; (S. Parsons, A. Leonard, P. Mitchell, 2006; S. Parsons, P. Mitchell, 2002). The goal of this research is to design and develop an immersive visualization application in a VR CAVE environment for educating children with autism. The main goal of the project is to help children with autism learn and enhance their social skills and behaviours. Specifically, we will investigate whether a VR CAVE environment can be used in an effective way by children with mild autism, and whether children can benefit from that and apply the knowledge in their real life.

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in Harvard Style

Matsentidou S. and Poullis C. (2014). Immersive Visualizations in a VR Cave Environment for the Training and Enhancement of Social Skills for Children with Autism . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-009-3, pages 230-236. DOI: 10.5220/0004844602300236


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp14,
author={Skevi Matsentidou and Charalambos Poullis},
title={Immersive Visualizations in a VR Cave Environment for the Training and Enhancement of Social Skills for Children with Autism},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={230-236},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004844602300236},
isbn={978-989-758-009-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Immersive Visualizations in a VR Cave Environment for the Training and Enhancement of Social Skills for Children with Autism
SN - 978-989-758-009-3
AU - Matsentidou S.
AU - Poullis C.
PY - 2014
SP - 230
EP - 236
DO - 10.5220/0004844602300236