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Predicting Autism from Head Movement Patterns during Naturalistic Social Interactions.
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- Artificial intelligence for tracking social behaviours and supporting an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: systematic review and meta-analysis.EBioMedicine · 2025Pooled it
- Automated Quantification of Head Motion Synchrony in Peer Interactions of Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Automated analysis of clinical interviews indicates altered head movements during social interactions in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Beyond FACS: Data-driven Facial Expression Dictionaries, with Application to Predicting Autism.Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition · 2025Article
- Detecting Autism from Head Movements using Kinesics.Proceedings of the ... ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. ICMI (Conference) · 2024Article
- Ethical considerations for integrating multimodal computer perception and neurotechnology.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized in part by difficulties in verbal and nonverbal social communication. Evidence indicates that autistic people, compared to neurotypical peers, exhibit differences in head movements, a key form of nonverbal communication. Despite the crucial role of head movements in social communication, research on this nonverbal cue is relatively scarce compared to other forms of nonverbal communication, such as facial expressions and gestures. There is a need for scalable, reliable, and accurate instruments for measuring head movements directly within the context of social interactions. In this study, we used computer vision and machine learning to examine the head movement patterns of neurotypical and autistic individuals during naturalistic, face-to-face conversations, at both the individual (
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