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Summary Sentence: The “B” in “CBS” (Computational Behavioral Science): a View from the Trenches
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Speaker:
Agata Rozga
Title:
The “B” in “CBS” (Computational Behavioral Science): a View from the Trenches
Abstract:
Computational Behavioral Science is an emerging new discipline that combines psychology and computing, with the goal transforming the way we measure, analyze, and understand human behavior. As a developmental psychologist with a focus on autism, I see much potential for novel sensing capabilities and computational modeling approaches to (1) deepen our understanding of this condition, and (2) address real-world issues such as scaling early screening and diagnostic efforts and improving quality of care. Over the past four years, I have had the chance to work closely with experts in computer vision, acoustic analysis, activity recognition, ubiquitous computing, human computer interaction, both at Georgia Tech and beyond. They have helped me explore the applications of CBS to studying autism. In this talk, I would like to reflect on this experience, as a psychologist. What does it mean for a psychologist to become a computational behavioral scientist? What changes in approach or practice do psychologists have to make to enable them to successfully collaborate with computer scientists? What new research opportunities become possible when you adopt a CBS perspective? I will explore these questions and illustrate them with examples from my own work, including the use of on-body sensing to study problem behaviors in individuals with autism in a clinical setting; using depth cameras and computer vision to study social attention in young infants; and developing novel capture and access technologies to support remote-diagnosis of children with autism using videos collected by families in their homes.
Bio:
Agata Rozga (Ph.D., UCLA) is a developmental psychologist and a research scientist in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She is the Director of the Georgia Tech Child Study Lab, a richly instrumented laboratory playroom that serves as a main data collection site for the GT-led Expeditions in Computing Grant on Computational Behavioral Science: Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization of Social and Communicative Behavior.
