Research Interests

I am a Developmental Psychologist with a research focus on early social-communicative development in autism. My current research lies at the interdisciplinary boundary between developmental psychology and computing. I apply computationally driven measurement and modeling to develop novel ways to capture and quantify complex social-communicative behaviors. I hope this approach can lead to new understandings of these behaviors, both among typically developing individuals and those with autism.

Publications

* denotes student co-authors

Computational Behavioral Science
  • *Xu, M., Rehg, J.M., Rozga, A., McDaniel, J., Yoder, P., Watson, L., Brady, N.C. (2022). Discovering Novel Predictors of Minimally Verbal Outcomes in Autism through Computational Modeling. Oral presentation at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research, May 11-14, Austin, TX. Selected as one of 7 abstracts to be featured at the meeting’s press conference.
  • *Prince, E. B., *Ciptadi, A., Tao, Y., Rozga, A., Martin, K. B., Rehg, J., & Messinger, D. S. (2021). Continuous measurement of attachment behavior: A multimodal view of the strange situation procedure. Infant Behavior and Development, 63, article 101565.
  • *Chong, E., *Clark-Whitney, E., *Southerland, A., *Stubbs, E., *Miller, C., *Ajodan, E. L., Silverman, M., Lord, C., Rozga, A., Jones, M.R., & Rehg, J. M. (2020). Detection of eye contact with deep neural networks is as accurate as human experts. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-10.
  • *Chong, E., *Ruiz, N., *Wang, Y., *Zhang, Y., Rozga, A., & Rehg, J. M. (2018). Connecting gaze, scene, and attention: Generalized attention estimation via joint modeling of gaze and scene saliency. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (pp. 383-398).
  • *Chong, E., Southerland, A., *Kundu, A., Jones, R., Rozga, A., Rehg, J. (2017). Visual 3D Tracking of Child-Adult Social Interactions. To appear in Proceedings 7th Joint IEEE International  Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EPIROB 2017), September 18-21, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal 
  • *Chong, E., *Chanda, K., *Ye, Z., *Southerland, A., *Ruiz, N., Jones, R., Rozga, A., & Rehg, J. (2017). Detecting Gaze Towards Eyes in Natural Social Interactions and Its Use in Child Assessment. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive, Multimedia, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 1(3), Article 43. 
  • *Tsatsoulis, D.P., *Kordas, P., *Marshall, M., Forsyth, D., & Rozga, A. (2016). The Static Multimodal Dyadic Behavior Dataset for Engagement Prediction. Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016), pp.386-399. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49409-8_31
  • *Ye, Z., *Li, Y., *Liu, Y., *Bridges, C., Rozga, A., & Rehg, J. “Detecting bids for eye contact using a wearable camera.” Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2015. 
  • *Rajagopalan, S.S., Murthy, R., Goecke, R., and Rozga, A. “Play with Me - Measuring a Child’s Engagement in a Social Interaction.” Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2015.
  • *Bidwell, J., Rozga, A., Essa, I., & Abowd, G.D. “Measuring child visual attention using markerless head tracking from color and depth sensing cameras.” Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pp.447-454, 2014.
  • *Rehg, J., Rozga, A., Abowd, G., & Goodwin, M. “Behavioral Imaging and Autism.” IEEE Pervasive, April-June, 2014.   
  • *Hernandez, J., *Riobo, I., Rozga, A., Abowd, G.D., & Picard, R. "Using Electrodermal Activity to Recognize Ease of Engagement in Children during Social Interactions." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), pp. 307-317, 2014.
  • *Rao, H., *Kim, J., Clements, M., Rozga, A., & Messinger D. “Detection of Children's Paralinguistic Events in Interaction with Caregivers.” Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2014.
  • *Presti, L.L., Sclaroff, S., & Rozga, A. “Joint Alignment and Modeling of Correlated Behavior Streams.” Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, Workshop on Decoding Subtle Cues from Social Interactions (ICCV), pp.730 - 737, 2013.
  • Rehg, J.M., Abowd, G.D., Rozga, A., Romero, M., Clements, M., Sclaroff, S., Essa, I., Ousley, O., *Li, Y., *Kim, C., *Rao, H., *Kim, J., *Presti, L., *Zhang, J., *Lantsman, D., *Bidwell, J., & *Ye, Z. “Decoding children’s social behavior.” Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp.3414 - 3421, 2013.
  • *Rao, H., *Kim, J.C., Rozga, A., & Clements, M.C. “Detection of Laughter in Children’s Speech Using Spectral and Prosodic Acoustic Features.” Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), pp.1399-1403, 2013.
  • *Han, Y., Rozga, A., Stasko, J., & Abowd, G.D. "Visual Exploration of Common Behaviors for Developmental Health." Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC), pp.15-18, 2013. 
  • Ploetz, P., *Hammerla, N., Rozga, A., Reavis, A., Call, N., & Abowd, G. "Automatic assessment of problem behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities.” Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), pp. 391-400, 2012. Best Paper Nominee
  • *Ye, Z., *Li, Y., *Fathi, A., *Han, Y., Rozga, A., Abowd, G.D., Rehg, J. "Detecting eye contact using wearable eye-tracking glasses." Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), pp. 699-704, 2012.
Technology and Health
  • Zubatiy, T., Mathur, N., Vickers, K., Rozga, A., & Mynatt, E., (2023). “I don’t know how to help with that” - Learning from Limitations of Modern Conversational Agent Systems. To appear in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). 
  • Smith, C., Rozga, A., Matthews, N., Oberleitner, R., Nazneen, N., & Abowd, G. (2016). Investigating the accuracy of novel telehealth diagnostic approach for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Psychological Assessment. doi:10.1037/pas
  • *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),  2015. doi:10.1145/2771839.2771847
  • *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.
  • *Ji, Y., *Hong, H., Arriaga, R., Rozga, A., Abowd, G.D., Eisenstein, J. “Mining Themes and Interests in the Asperger’s and Autism Community.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality (ACL), pp. 97–106, 2014.
  • *Nazneen, F., Rozga, A., Romero, M., Call, N., Findley, A., Abowd, G., & Arriaga, R. (2012). Supporting parents for in-home capture of problem behaviors of children with developmental disabilities. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 16(2), 193-207.
  • *Nazneen, F., *Boujarwah, F.A., Rozga, A., Abowd, G. D., Arriaga, R. I., Oberleitner, R., & Pharkute, S. "Towards in-home collection of behavior specimens: Within the cultural context of autism in Pakistan." Proceedings of the 2012 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), pp.9-16, 2012.
Early Development in Autism
  • ​Rozga, A., Hesse, E., Main, M., Duschinsky, R., Beckwith, L., & Sigman, M. (2018). A short-term longitudinal study of correlates and sequelae of attachment security in autism. Attachment & Human Development, 20(2), 160-180.
  • Edmunds, S.R., Rozga, A., Li, Y., Karp, E.A., Ibanez, L.V., Rehg, J.M., Stone, W.L., (2017). Using a point-of-view camera to measure eye gaze in young children with autism spectrum disorder during naturalistic social interactions: A pilot study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. doi:10.1007/s10803-016-3002-3
  • Rozga, A., Hutman, T., Young, G. S., Rogers, S., Ozonoff, S., Dapretto, M., & Sigman, M. (2011). Behavioral profiles of affected and unaffected siblings of children with autism: Contribution of measures of mother-infant interaction and nonverbal communication. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(3), 287-301.
  • Young, G. S., Rogers, S., Hutman, T., Rozga, A., Sigman, M., & Ozonoff, S. (2011). Imitation from 12 to 24 months in autism and typical development: A longitudinal Rasch analysis. Developmental Psychology, 47(6), 1565-1578.
  • Hutman, T., Rozga, A., DeLaurentis, A. D., Barnwell, J., Sugar, C. A., & Sigman, M. (2010). Response to distress in infants at risk for autism: a prospective longitudinal study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(9), 1010-1020.
  • Christensen, L., Hutman, T., Rozga, A., Young, G.S., Ozonoff, S., Rogers, S.J., Baker, B., & Sigman, M. (2010). Play and developmental outcomes in infant siblings of children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40(8), 946-957.
  • Ozonoff, S., Iosif, A., Baguio, F., Cook, I., Moore-Hill, M., Hutman, T., Rogers, S.J., Rozga, A., Sangha, S., Sigman, M., Stenfield, M.B., & Young, G.S. (2010). A prospective study of the emergence of early behavioral signs of autism. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49(3), 256-266.
  • Nadig, A., Ozonoff, S., Young, G. S., Rozga, A., Sigman, M., & Rogers, S.J. (2007). A prospective study of response-to-name in infants at risk for autism. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 161, 378–383.
  • Sigman, M., Dijamco, A., Gratier, M., & Rozga, A. (2004) Early detection of core deficits in autism. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 10(4), 221–233. 
Miscellaneous Autism 
  • Jones, R.M., *Southerland, A., *Hamo, A., *Carberry, C., *Bridges, C., *Nay, S., *Stubbs, E., Komarow, E., *Washington, C., Rehg, J.M., Lord, C., & Rozga, A., (2016). Increased eye contact during conversation compared to play in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. ​doi:10.1007/s10803-016-2981-4
  • Rozga, A., King, T.Z., Vuduc, R.W., & Robins, D.L. (2013). Undifferentiated facial electromyography responses to emotional stimuli in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Developmental Science, 16(4), 499-516.
  • Rozga, A., Andersen, S., & Robins, D. (2011). Major current neuropsychological theories of ASD. In D. Fein (Ed.), The Neuropsychology of Autism (97-122). Oxford University Press: New York.
  • Beckwith, L., Rozga, A., Sigman, M. (2002). Maternal sensitivity and attachment in atypical groups. In R.V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 30, 231–274. 
Miscellaneous Interesting Research 
  • Chow, S.-M., *Ou. L, *Ciptadi, A., *Prince, E., *You, D., Hunter, M. D., Rehg, J. M., Rozga, A., & Messinger, D. S. (in press). Differential equation modeling approaches to representing sudden shifts in intensive dyadic interaction data. Psychometrika.
  • Kunda, M., Soulieres, I., Rozga, A., & Goel, A. (2016). Error Patterns on the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Test. Intelligence, 59, 181-198. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2016.09.004
  • *Gupta, R., *Audhkhasi, K., *Jacokes, Z., Rozga, A., & Narayanan, A. (2016). Modeling multiple time series annotations based on ground truth inference and distortion. In  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. doi:10.1109/TAFFC.2016.2592918.
  • *Han, Y., Rozga, A., Dimitrova, N., Abowd, G., & Stasko, J. “Visual Analysis of Proximal Temporal Relationships of Social and Communicative Behaviors.” To appear in Proceedings of the 17th Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), 2015.
  • *Kunda, M., Soulières, I., Rozga, A., & Goel, A. K. “Methods for Classifying Errors on the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices Test.” Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2796-2801, 2013.
  • Hutman, T., Rozga, A., DeLaurentis, A., Sigman, M., & Dapretto, M. (2012). Infants’ pre-empathic behaviors are associated with language skills. Infant Behavior & Development, 35(3), 561-569.
  • *Shin, G., Choi, T., Rozga, A., & Romero, M. “VizKid: A Behavior Capture and Visualization System of Adult-Child Interaction.” Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), pp.190-198, 2011. Best paper in Human Interfaces and Management of Information.
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