Autism Spectrum Disease (ASD) can be referred to as
one type of neurodevelopmental disorder, causing communication
or behavioral disabilities in multiple severity levels. These
challenges cause difficulties in communication, interaction,
problem-solving, etc. Though having no persistent cure for ASD,
several treatments and intervention strategies prevail for their
behavioral development. These treatments include social skill
training, sensory integration, and occasional therapy, etc. Many
of these researches highly emphasize joint attention, which is the
common issue of most autism cases. Joint or shared attention is
highly essential for language and communication skill
development. In this work, we proposed a game-based approach to
improving the joint attention of children with autism. This
approach focuses on the efficiency of skilling up their shared
attention by interacting with digital models through
problem-solving. We integrate AR (Augmented Reality) and VR
(Virtual Reality) technologies for solving this issue. Using these
technologies, we have designed an interactive multi-staged game
module, including several types of real-life alike problems.
Problem-solving and interacting with these mascots can help
children build up learning and communication skills, which
sometimes real-life interaction may find challenging. Again, eye
screening and health can be issues in the device-centric scheme.
An analytical survey has been presented in this work, confirming
that all these health issues have been carefully considered.
Implementation and outperforming results of this work will give a
clear stand about the effectiveness of this module. Besides, we
present sufficient analytics confirming that this module can also
be efficient for normal children.
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