International Conference of Infant Studies

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Pre-Conference Workshop: Technological & methodological advances for infant development research “in the wild”

The workshop introduces recent developments in wearable sensors (EgoActive) that allow the recording of infants’ and caregivers’ egocentric view (head-mounted cameras), synchronised in time with the recordings of cardiac activity and body movement (ECG/Accelerometry body sensors) during typical everyday life situations (i.e., outside the lab). During the workshop we will be demonstrating how these wearables work and their capabilities in terms of data collection.
We will also demonstrate a series of data processing and analyses approaches (automated and semi-automated algorithms) for extracting multimodal measures relevant to characterising infants’ environment and the development of important cognitive functions (e.g., attention).

Schedule outline:
1. An overview of the naturalistic approach to development (presenter: Elena Geangu)
2. Introduction to the EgoActive platform and how it works (+ time to play with the devices) (presenters: Priscilla Martinez-Cedillo, Elena Geangu)
3. Approaches to analyzing and characterizing infants’ visual environment (e.g., visual features and faces) (presenter: Quoc Vuong)
4. Methods for analyzing and characterizing infants’ physiological responses in a naturalistic environment (presenter: Harry Mason)
5. How to use visual and heart beat data to predict and characterize infants’ sustained attention to objects and events in a dynamic natural environment (presenter: Yisi Zhang)
Period8 Jul 2024
Event typeConference
LocationGlasgow, United KingdomShow on map