First International Symposium on Computer Behavioral Science (NII Shonan Meeting 2013-9)

In this short talk I hope to demonstrate the advantage of a developmental approach to untangling the heterogeneity of outcomes in autism, and to demonstrate opportunities for computational behavioral science to contribute to this approach. I will illustrate this point by briefly reviewing research that shows how children’s emerging capacity to share attention with others vis-a-vis objects and events joint attention predicts language development in children with autism. Biography Agata Rozga is a Research Scientist in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a developmental psychologist and an autism researcher, with a particular interest in early socialcommunicative development of children on the autism spectrum. Her current research spans the areas of Developmental Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computational Behavioral Science, with an aim toward building new tools to measure behaviors that are relevant both to identifying early signs of autism, and to predicting developmental trajectories and outcomes in this population.