Virtual Talks and workshops

Symposim: Automated tools for annotation and analysis of social interactions

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Abdellah Fourtassi: In many computational models of face-to-face coordination, the goal is to identify which combinations of cues predict a response. However, this depends on reliably extracting multimodal cues from video data. Can such extraction be automated? I will present some of the challenges and lessons we’ve learned in our recent experience.  

Grace Miao: Social interaction is a complex, multimodal phenomenon with varying timescales and meaning-making structures. We discuss how visualization tools like DIMS –  Dynamic Interaction and Multimodal Signals – enhance multimodal, cross- disciplinary research in social interaction, and tool development.

Daniel Messinger: Infant interactive behavior is coordinated in time in a fashion not captured by co-occurrence or contingency analyses. We present a simple simulation procedure that takes patterns of interactive behavior as its basic unit of analysis and reveals infants’ impressive early coordinative development. Finally, we tackle the primitives of coordination by reviewing new work using a Poisson multilevel survival analysis approach to model how infants create coordinated behavior patterns.

Anika van der Klis:  We evaluated how well open-source automatic speech recognition tools can transcribe infant-directed speech. While there is room for improvement, the findings suggest that such tools offer a useful starting point when transcribing infant-directed speech.

Priscilla Ferronato Virtual Talk: Active manual behavior in early infancy.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Koen de Reus Virtual Talk: Vocal adjustments in social interactions between harbour seal pups.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Youtao Lu Virtual Talk: Gaze crossing: Assessing the role of social contingency in early word learning by examining real-time gaze interaction.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Catalina Suarez-Rivera Virtual Talk: Breaking down multilevel linear models for longitudinal/nested data.

Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/2799413590

Georgios Dougalis Virtual Talk: Mother-infant self- and interactive contingency at four months and infant cognition at one year: A view from microanalysis.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Annette Henderson and Florian Bednarski Virtual Talk: Completing the loop with BabyX: Harnessing a novel interactive experimental tool to uncover how infants’ communicative signals shape caregivers’ interactive responsiveness.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Eve Clark Virtual Talk: How feedback in conversation guides first language acquisition.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Tibor Tauzin Virtual Talk: Infants recognize communicative information transfer based on the predictability of signal sequences in turn-taking exchanges.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Abdellah Fourtassi Virtual Talk: Automatic coding of contingency in child-caregiver conversations.

Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/4742547803

Elizabeth Che Virtual Talk: From pre-linguistic communication to early language use: The role of social contingency.

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

Gideon Salter Virtual Talk: From pre-linguistic communication to early language use: The role of social contingency.

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

Gina Mason Virtual Talk: Investigating Dyadic Social Coordination and Infant Attention in Typical and Atypical Development.

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

Nicholas Smith Virtual Talk: The role of turn-taking and its timing on language development.

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

Steven Elmlinger Virtual Talk: Advantages of altriciality in early communicative development.

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

Elena Luchkina Virtual Talk: Social contingency facilitates infants’ vocabulary growth above and beyond language input and attention to it.

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

Catherine Tamis-Lemonda Keynote Talk: Feedback Loops in Learning.

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

UEL baby lab Virtual Symposium

Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3282139085

Sam Wass: the role of contingent responding in early arousal co-regulation, based on a study of caregiver-child dual physiology in day-long home recordings. 

Emily Phillips: the role of contingent responding in early joint attention, based on a study that recorded dual EEG during early caregiver-child joint play. 

Katie Lancaster: child-caregiver contingency and the development of predictive coding.

Narain Viswanathan: child-caregiver contingency and development of mimicry.