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Course of Face-to-face Interactions in Adults With Autism
Sponsor: UMC Utrecht
Summary
This research explores how adults with autism make eye contact during formal and informal interactions; to what extent the nature of a conversation influences how eye contact is made in terms of length, frequency and overall presentation. Also what physiological responses to eye contact are, in order to determine to what extent eye contact leads to an increased, decreased or unchanged stress level. In addition, to gain insight into the similarities and differences in how people with ASD respond to eye contact of others compared to their own eye contact.
Official title: Course of Face-to-face Interactions in Adults With Autism: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Experimental Design
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
54
Start Date
2025-02-03
Completion Date
2026-04-30
Last Updated
2025-04-13
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Conversation
The design consists of two parts. In the first part, the researcher will have a conversation (with a formal and informal phase, where the subject will be given the idea that only the formal part is part of the study) with an adult with ASD during which covert recordings of the subject's eye behavior will be made, and in addition skin conductance and duration/frequency of eye contact of the subject will be recorded, without the subject knowing that this is intended for the purpose of studying eye contact. In the second part, the researcher and subject will watch the covert recording of the subject's eye behavior, during which the subject's skin conductance will be recorded and details of the subject's behavior as seen by the researcher.
Locations (1)
Dimence Groep
Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands