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ArticleBiomedical engineering online2015

A new system for quantitative evaluation of infant gaze capabilities in a wide visual field.

Andrea Pratesi, Francesca Cecchi, Elena Beani, Giuseppina Sgandurra, Giovanni Cioni, Cecilia Laschi, Paolo Dario

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Andrea PratesiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy. a.pratesi@sssup.it.
Francesca CecchiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy. f.cecchi@sssup.it.
Elena BeaniDepartment of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Viale del Tirreno 331, 56128, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy. e.beani@fsm.unipi.it.
Giuseppina SgandurraDepartment of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Viale del Tirreno 331, 56128, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy. g.sgandurra@fsm.unipi.it.
Giovanni CioniDepartment of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Viale del Tirreno 331, 56128, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy. gcioni@fsm.unipi.it.
Cecilia LaschiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy. c.laschi@sssup.it.
Paolo DarioThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy. p.dario@sssup.it.

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Abstract

backgroundThe visual assessment of infants poses specific challenges: many techniques that are used on adults are based on the patient's response, and are not suitable for infants. Significant advances in the eye-tracking have made this assessment of infant visual capabilities easier, however, eye-tracking still requires the subject's collaboration, in most cases and thus limiting the application in infant research. Moreover, there is a lack of transferability to clinical practice, and thus it emerges the need for a new tool to measure the paradigms and explore the most common visual competences in a wide visual field. This work presents the design, development and preliminary testing of a new system for measuring infant's gaze in the wide visual field called CareToy C: CareToy for Clinics.

methodsThe system is based on a commercial eye tracker (SmartEye) with six cameras running at 60 Hz, suitable for measuring an infant's gaze. In order to stimulate the infant visually and audibly, a mechanical structure has been designed to support five speakers and five screens at a specific distance (60 cm) and angle: one in the centre, two on the right-hand side and two on the left (at 30° and 60° respectively). Different tasks have been designed in order to evaluate the system capability to assess the infant's gaze movements during different conditions (such as gap, overlap or audio-visual paradigms). Nine healthy infants aged 4-10 months were assessed as they performed the visual tasks at random.

resultsWe developed a system able to measure infant's gaze in a wide visual field covering a total visual range of ±60° from the centre with an intermediate evaluation at ±30°. Moreover, the same system, thanks to different integrated software, was able to provide different visual paradigms (as gap, overlap and audio-visual) assessing and comparing different visual and multisensory sub-competencies. The proposed system endowed the integration of a commercial eye-tracker into a purposive setup in a smart and innovative way.

conclusionsThe proposed system is suitable for measuring and evaluating infant's gaze capabilities in a wide visual field, in order to provide quantitative data that can enrich the clinical assessment.

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Eye MovementsMechanical PhenomenaVisual FieldsAttentionEquipment DesignFemaleHumansInfantMaleSoftwareSystems IntegrationTime FactorsUser-Computer Interface

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