System and method for improving presentation skills

摘要

A system and method for improving social and presentation skills of persons with a social communication disorder such as Autism. Social anxiety or a lack of confidence, the method including: rendering and displaying on a display device a presentation script for an oral presentation to be made by a user; monitoring eye movement of the user during the oral presentation to measure a user's pupil movement and/or a user's gaze direction; displaying an indicia on a separate display screen and/or an upper portion of the display device; periodically displaying within the presentation script a visual prompt to cue the user to look at the indicia; measuring eye movement using eye tracking software and/or an eye tracking device, at occurrence of the visual prompt; and evaluating whether the user made eye contact with the indicia when prompted.

主权项

1. A method for improving social and presentation skills of a person, the person having a client device including a processing device, memory, a user interface, and a display device, the method comprising:
rendering and displaying on the display device a scrolling presentation speech for an oral presentation to be made by a user; monitoring eye movement of the user during the oral presentation to measure at least one of a user's pupil movement and a user's gaze direction; displaying an indicia on at least one of a separate display screen and a portion of the display device; periodically displaying within the scrolling presentation speech a visual prompt to cue the user to look at the indicia; measuring eye movement at occurrence of the visual prompt; and evaluating whether the user made eye contact with the indicia when prompted.