Biography

KAREN E. ADOLPH is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at New York University. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, her Ph.D. from Emory University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Adolph leads the Databrary.org project to enable video data sharing among developmental scientists. She is a Fellow of APA and APS and President of the International Society for Infant Studies. She received a Cattell Sabbatical Award, the APF Fantz Memorial Award, the APA Boyd McCandless Award, the ISIS Young Investigator Award, FIRST and MERIT awards from NICHD, and four teaching awards from NYU. She chaired the NIH study section on Motor Function and Speech Rehabilitation and is on the Advisory Board of the McDonnell Foundation and the editorial board of Developmental Psychobiology. Adolph’s research examines effects of body growth, exploratory activity, environmental and social supports, and culture on perceptual-motor learning and development.

3-049 - Good Behavior: Coding, Sharing, and Repurposing Video

Session Type: Invited State of the Art Address

Integrative Statement

Behavior is infinitely rich. In both natural and laboratory settings, children exhibit an extraordinary array of behaviors—visual exploration, facial expressions, speech, gestures, locomotion, and social interactions. Video captures much of this richness and complexity, so for most developmental scientists, video forms the backbone of their research programs. In this talk, I describe how tools for video coding, exploration, and visualization can help researchers to mine the richness of their video data. I urge researchers to spread the wealth by sharing videos among a community of like-minded researchers and I address central concerns about participants’ privacy, appropriate attribution, and data curation. I conclude with examples of how video data can be repurposed to ask new questions beyond the scope of the original study. In this sense, all behavior is good behavior—valuable to other researchers and capable of yielding new insights into the causes and consequences of learning and development.

Sub Unit

• SRCD Biennial Meeting

Chair

• Peter M Vishton, College of William and Mary

Speaker

• Karen E Adolph, New York University