Occupational Intervention with Tobii PCEye Plus Eye Navigation for Clients with Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Abstract
Eye tracking navigation Tobii PCEye Plus is an assistive technology which scans, evaluates and records user's sight focused on a monitor. It is primarily used as a compensatory device by clients with communication disabilities.
It fully replaces a keyboard and a mouse because it captures eye movements fast and very accurately. It helps to improve social interactions and it can control all pc functions and home appliances, and so it increases maximum self-sufficiency.
There are special programs designed for the Tobii. The most used program for clients with pervasive developmental disorder is called Look to learn thanks to which clients can easily train how to use the device.
Capabilities of the Tobii technology are significantly enhanced by DiagView extension, which generates a graphical representation of a client's eye movement analysis after a proven activity. It records in colors the intensity of points and maps where were directed the client's eyes during the activity.
This allows the device to be used for diagnosis and intervention. The intervention in these cases focuses on improvement of communication, social interactions and games.
This device comes from Sweden, where it is used by occupational therapists, special teachers and speech therapists. The article aims to acquaint the reader with the possibilities of occupational intervention with Tobii PCEye Plus eye navigation.
Six case studies were conducted with clients with pervasive developmental disorder.