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Joint attention is critical for effective communication and learning during shared reading. There is a potential disassociation of attention when the adult reads texts while the child looks at pictures. We hypothesize the lack of joint attention limits children’s opportunity to learn print words. Traditional research paradigm does not measure joint attention in real-time. In the current study, three experiments were conducted to monitor parent-child joint attention in shared storybook reading. We simultaneously tracked eye movements of a parent and his/her child with two eye-trackers. We also provided real-time eye gaze feedback to the parent about where the child was looking at, and vice versa. Changes of dyads’ reading behaviors before and after the intervention were measured from both eye movements and video records. Baseline data showed little joint attention in the naturalistic parent-child shared reading. The real-time eye gaze feedback significantly increased parent-child joint attention and improved children’s learning.
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Guo, J., Feng, G. (2013). How Eye Gaze Feedback Changes Parent-Child Joint Attention in Shared Storybook Reading?. In: Nakano, Y., Conati, C., Bader, T. (eds) Eye Gaze in Intelligent User Interfaces. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4784-8_2
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