TY - JOUR
T1 - Computer Vision Analysis of Caregiver–Child Interactions in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
T2 - A Preliminary Report
AU - Isaev, Dmitry Yu
AU - Sabatos-DeVito, Maura
AU - Di Martino, J. Matias
AU - Carpenter, Kimberly
AU - Aiello, Rachel
AU - Compton, Scott
AU - Davis, Naomi
AU - Franz, Lauren
AU - Sullivan, Connor
AU - Dawson, Geraldine
AU - Sapiro, Guillermo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - We report preliminary results of computer vision analysis of caregiver–child interactions during free play with children diagnosed with autism (N = 29, 41–91 months), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, N = 22, 48–100 months), or combined autism + ADHD (N = 20, 56–98 months), and neurotypical children (NT, N = 7, 55–95 months). We conducted micro-analytic analysis of ‘reaching to a toy,’ as a proxy for initiating or responding to a toy play bout. Dyadic analysis revealed two clusters of interaction patterns, which differed in frequency of ‘reaching to a toy’ and caregivers’ contingent responding to the child’s reach for a toy by also reaching for a toy. Children in dyads with higher caregiver responsiveness had less developed language, communication, and socialization skills. Clusters were not associated with diagnostic groups. These results hold promise for automated methods of characterizing caregiver responsiveness in dyadic interactions for assessment and outcome monitoring in clinical trials.
AB - We report preliminary results of computer vision analysis of caregiver–child interactions during free play with children diagnosed with autism (N = 29, 41–91 months), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, N = 22, 48–100 months), or combined autism + ADHD (N = 20, 56–98 months), and neurotypical children (NT, N = 7, 55–95 months). We conducted micro-analytic analysis of ‘reaching to a toy,’ as a proxy for initiating or responding to a toy play bout. Dyadic analysis revealed two clusters of interaction patterns, which differed in frequency of ‘reaching to a toy’ and caregivers’ contingent responding to the child’s reach for a toy by also reaching for a toy. Children in dyads with higher caregiver responsiveness had less developed language, communication, and socialization skills. Clusters were not associated with diagnostic groups. These results hold promise for automated methods of characterizing caregiver responsiveness in dyadic interactions for assessment and outcome monitoring in clinical trials.
KW - ADHD
KW - Autism
KW - Caregiver–child interaction
KW - Computer vision
KW - Dyadic data analysis
KW - Micro-analytic coding
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U2 - 10.1007/s10803-023-05973-0
DO - 10.1007/s10803-023-05973-0
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85153780412
SN - 0162-3257
VL - 54
SP - 2286
EP - 2297
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
IS - 6
ER -