An Objective System for Quantitative Assessment of Television Viewing Among Children (Family Level Assessment of Screen Use in the Home-Television): System Development Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Television viewing among children is associated with developmental and health outcomes, yet measurement techniques for television viewing are prone to errors, biases, or both.

Objective

This study aims to develop a system to objectively and passively measure children's television viewing time.

Methods

The Family Level Assessment of Screen Use in the Home-Television (FLASH-TV) system includes three sequential algorithms applied to video data collected in front of a television screen: face detection, face verification, and gaze estimation. A total of 21 families of diverse race and ethnicity were enrolled in 1 of 4 design studies to train the algorithms and provide proof of concept testing for the integrated FLASH-TV system. Video data were collected from eac

SUBMITTER: Vadathya AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8990369 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature