Home-based eye tracking for early autism screening: a scoping review of approaches, evidence, and implementation challenges
Aya A. Elkhodiry, Syed Ali Bokhari, Nejad Alagha, Dania Mohammed, Rajveen Kakkar, Afra Abdalla, Abigail Copiaco, Yassine Himeur, Christian Ritz, Amin Beheshti, Wathiq Mansoor, Ammar Albanna, Valsamma Eapen · 2026
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Elkhodiry and colleagues reviewed the evidence for screening young children for autism at home using eye-tracking, technology that follows where a child looks on a screen. Their 2026 scoping review searched PubMed and Scopus for studies from 2015 to 2025 and mapped devices, methods, and results.
Most published work still comes from clinic or laboratory trackers, which account for 82.4% of papers, while wearable devices make up 8.8% and ordinary webcams just 5.5% of the literature. Studies devoted to home use remain rare at 3.3% of papers, even though home screening could reach families far from specialists. One large included study followed 1,089 toddlers and measured social visual engagement from videos. The reviewers say validation, regulation, and deployment hurdles still stand between promising results and routine clinical use.
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| CREATOR | Aya A. Elkhodiry, Syed Ali Bokhari, Nejad Alagha, Dania Mohammed, Rajveen Kakkar, Afra Abdalla, Abigail Copiaco, Yassine Himeur, Christian Ritz, Amin Beheshti, Wathiq Mansoor, Ammar Albanna, Valsamma Eapen |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 104 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |