Analysis of eye movement for contributing to improvement of learning and daily living of physically challenged children

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350711
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: Nagoya Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: SAITOU Kenji 名古屋学院大学, スポーツ健康科学部, 教授 (70336105)
• Research Collaborator: MATSUURA Takaaki
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 眼球運動 / 肢体不自由児 / アイカメラ / 見る力 / サッカード / パスート / 固視 / 手と眼の協調

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Physically challenged children due to the cerebral palsy are interfered with learning and daily living because it is hard for them to regulate not only movement of their body and limbs but also eye movement. Then, the eye-movement or the visual line of physically challenged children during reading and tracing objects were measured with eye camera.
As the results, the following characteristics were observed when the children stared at the objects or chased the moving objects with eyes. First, their visual line deviated unconsciously from the point at where they stared. Second, when they should move their eye smoothly to chase an object, their visual line often jumped to the point which they didn't need to look at. On the contrary, there were the cases that their visual line couldn't move to the point which they should look at. Third, they couldn't jump their visual line to the point which they should look at.

Free Research Field

バイオメカニクス，機能解剖学