23.1 Autism and Beyond: Lessons From an Iphone Study of Young Children

To present results from our Duke iPhone study Autism& Beyond to illustrate how smartphone-based tools coupled with automated computer vision and machine learning analytics can transform how, when, and where we assess young children ’s development and mental health. The primary aims of the study were to test the acceptability and feasibility of conducting an iPhone-based study with caregivers and young children, which included collection of caregiver-report and child video behavioral data and to test a new video-based approac h for automatically collecting and quantifying young children’s emotions and behaviors in their homes.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Helen L. Egger, Geraldine Dawson, Jordan Hashemi, Kimberly L.H. Carpenter, Guillermo Sapiro Source Type: research