Dindar, K;
Korkiakangas, T;
Laitila, A;
Kärnä, E;
(2017)
An interactional 'live eye tracking' study in autism spectrum disorder: combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in the study of gaze.
Qualitative Research in Psychology
, 14
(3)
pp. 239-265.
10.1080/14780887.2017.1290174.
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Abstract
Recent studies on gaze behaviours in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have utilised ‘live eye tracking’. Such research has focused on generating quantitative eye tracking measurements, which provide limited (if any) qualitative contextual details of the actual interactions in which gaze occurs. This article presents a novel methodological approach that combines live eye tracking with qualitative interaction analysis, multimodally informed conversation analysis. Drawing on eye tracking and wide-angle video recordings, this combination renders visible some of the functions, or what gaze ‘does’, in interactional situations. The participants include three children with ASD and their adult co-participants during body-movement gaming sessions. The article demonstrates how quantitative eye tracking study can be extended with qualitative microanalytic interaction analysis to recontextualise the gaze shifts identified. The findings in this article show that the co-participants treat a child’s gaze shifts differently depending on when these occur in a stream of other action. The study suggests that introducing this qualitative dimension to eye tracking research could increase its ecological validity and offer new insight into gaze behaviours in ASD.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | An interactional 'live eye tracking' study in autism spectrum disorder: combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in the study of gaze |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14780887.2017.1290174 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2017.1290174 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Autism spectrum disorder, gaze shifts, functions of gaze, live eye tracking, conversation analysis |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542188 |
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