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 
  • *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
  • ​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 
  • 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.