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
  • *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 autism
  • 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.
Selected conference presentations & posters 
  • Rozga, A., *Washington, C., *Bridges, C., *Wu, A., *Southerland, A., & de Barbaro, K., (2017). "Attention to Faces, Objects, and Gaze Modulation in Toddlers At-Risk." Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 6-8, Austin, TX.
  • 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.” Poster presented at the 2016 International Congress on Infant Studies, May 26-28, New Orleans, LA.
  • 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." Poster presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research, May 11-14, Baltimore, MD, 
  • 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." Poster presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research, May 11-14, Baltimore, MD, ​
  • *Edmunds, S., Li, Y., Rozga, A., *Ibanez, L., *Karp, E., Rehg, J., & Stone, W.  (2014). A novel, ecologically valid approach to measure eye-to-eye gaze in young children during naturalistic social interactions. Oral presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development Special Topic Meeting: Developmental Methodology, September 11-13, San Diego CA.
  • *Khan, A., *Reavis, A., Call, N., Ploetz, T., Rozga, A. “Toward an Automated System for Objective Measurement of Problem Behaviors.” Poster presented at the Pediatric Healthcare Innovation: Advancing Technologies to Improve Child Health Conference, Atlanta, GA, April, 2014.
  • *Nazneen, F., Rozga, A., Smith, C.J., Oberleitner, R.M., Abowd, G.D., & Arriaga, R. “Iterative Design of a System to Support Diagnostic Assessments for Autism Using Home Videos.” Poster and demo presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, IMFAR, May 2014. 
  • *Bidwell, J., Rozga, A., *Kim, J.C., *Rao, H., Clements, M.A., & Abowd, G.D. “Automated Prediction of a Child's Response to Name from Audio and Video.” Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, IMFAR, May 2014.
  • *Liu, Y., *Li, Y., De la Torre, F., Rozga, A., & Rehg, J. “Real-Time Eye Contact Detection System.” Poster and demo presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, IMFAR, May 2014.
  • *Rao, H., *Kim, J.C., Rozga, A., Clements, M.A. “Paralinguistic Event Detection in Children’s Speech.” Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, IMFAR, May 2014.
  • *Han, Y., Rozga, A., Stasko, J.T., Abowd, G.D. "Using Visual Analytics to Understand Social and Communicative Behaviors" Poster presented at the IEEE Information Visualization Conference, Oct. 2013.
  • *Rozga, A., *Hammerla, N., Ploetz, T., Call, N., Reavis, A. "Use of On-Body Sensing and Computational Analysis to Automatically Detect Problem Behaviors." Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, IMFAR, May 2012.
  • *Ciptadi, A., Rozga, A., Rehg, J., Abowd, G.D. "Automatic Retrieval of Videos of Stereotyped and Repetitive Movements." Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, IMFAR, May 2012.