ArticleFrontiers in medicine2020
Can Psychophysics Be Fun? Exploring the Feasibility of a Gamified Contrast Sensitivity Function Measure in Amblyopic Children Aged 4-9 Years.
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Abstract
Routine assessments of the Contrast Sensitivity Function [CSF] could be useful for the diagnosis and monitoring of amblyopia. However, current CSF measures are not clinically practical, as they are too slow, too boring, and too uncomfortable to sustain a young child's interest. Here we assess the feasibility of a more gamified approach to CSF testing, in which a maximum likelihood psychophysical algorithm (QUEST+) is combined with a largely unconstrained user interface (no fixation target, head restraints, or discrete trials). Twenty-five amblyopes (strabismic, anisometropic, or mixed) aged 4.0-9.2 years performed the gamified CSF assessment monocularly (once per eye). The test required the child to "pop" (press) grating stimuli as they "bounced" around a tablet screen. Head tracking via the tablet's front-facing camera was used to adjust for variations in viewing distance
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