My research explores autism through computational tools & methods 

I am a Senior Research Scientist in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. By training, I am a developmental psychologist interested in early social-communicative development in autism. Most recently, I have been collaborating with computer scientists to develop novel computational tools and methods to objectively measure such behaviors in natural settings. The goal is to develop tools that can help us better detect, understand, and ultimately treat autism.

Together, my collaborators and I are forging a new multidisciplinary research area, which we call computational behavioral science. Our research vision is that we can transform how we measure, analyze, and understand behavior by leveraging advances in sensing and wearable technologies and computational modeling and analysis methods.

A few recent publications

Recent talks & activities
* denotes student co-authors
  • Smith, C., Rozga, A., Matthews, N., Oberleitner, R., Nazneen, N., & Abowd, G. (accepted). Investigating the accuracy of novel telehealth diagnostic approach for Autism Spectrum Disorder. To appear in Psychological Assessment.
  • *Ye, Z., *Li, Y., *Liu, Y., *Bridges, C., Rozga, A., & Rehg, J. “Detecting bids for eye contact using a wearable camera.” To appear in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2015. 
  • *Nazneen, F., Rozga, A., Smith, C., Oberleitner, R., Abowd, G.D., & Arriaga, R. (2015). A novel system for supporting autism diagnosis using home videos: Iterative development and evaluation of system design. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 3(2), e68. 
  • *Bhattacharya, A., *Gelsomini, M., *Perez-Fuentes, P., Abowd, G.D., & Rozga, A. (2015). "Designing Motion-Based Activities to Engage Students with Autism in Classroom Settings." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Interaction Design for Children (IDC), pp.69-78, 2015. 

  • Poster presented at the 2016 International Congress on Infant Studies on predicting expert ratings of attachment from automated acoustic analysis of infant vocalizations:
    • Prince, E., Warlaumont, A., Oller, D.K., Chow, S., Rozga, A., Ciptadi, C., Rehg, J.M, & Messinger, D. “Strange Situation Vocalizations Differ Between Secure and Insecure-Resistant Infants.”  
  • Two poster presentations at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research highlighted our continued exploration of wearable cameras for social gaze measurement:
    • Jones, R., Hamo, A., Carberry, C., Komarow, E., Southerland, A., Bridges, C., Nay, A., Stubbs, E., Rehg, J., Rozga, A., Lord, C. "Increased Eye Contact during Conversation Versus Play in Children and Adolescents with ASD."
    • Edmunds, S.R., Rozga, A., Li, Y., Ibanez, L., Karp, E., Rehg, J.M., & Stone, W., "A Novel Method for Quantifying Eye-to-Eye Gaze during Naturalistic Social Interactions Finds Preliminary Differences Between ASD and TD Toddlers." 

Get in touch with me

agata at gatech dot edu

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Interactive Computing
85 5th Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30308

My office: Technology Square Research Building Rm.219
Office Phone # 404-894-2304 
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