Video-Based Communal Data Collection & Coding: Advancing the Science of Infant Learning & Development

Discussion will focus on the infrastructure needed to manage large-scale corpora of video data, conduct quality assurance and inter-rater reliability checks, code essential behaviors from video, and store and link video to other measures. Workshop products will include a recorded webinar and scientific publications. Video captures the nuances and details of natural behavior more completely than any other measure, and video can be used and reused by experts in multiple domains. In particular, video recordings of natural infant play can serve as “ big data ” by exploiting the richness inherent in video. Play is the primary context for infant learning and is foundational to all domains of healthy development — cognition, language, social interaction, motor action, and emotion. Before children begin formal schooling, play occupies nearly all of their waking day. In the first years of life, play provides an unparalleled window into typical and atypical patterns of development, and an ideal context for understanding global development. We have convened a launch group of ~60 researchers with varied expertise in infant development (physical and motor development, language and gesture, object exploration and play, emotion, gender, home environment, media) who will discuss the issues involved in communal video data collection and coding of infants ’ natural play activity in the home at varied locations across the US. The goal is to capitalize on the varied expertise of a broad ...
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