Advances in Measurement of Children's Experiences
These studies were conducted to explore children's movement and language in typical early childhood settings using advanced technology. Data were gathered using real-time location systems (Ubisense) to measure children's movement, and speech recognition, digital language processors (LENA) to measure language.
Publications
Irvin, D., Rous, B., Luo, Y., Lane, J., Hadley, E., Rojas, J., Rojas, J., Irvin, A., & Bergstrom, H. (in press). Advances in measuring the intersection of talk and contextual features on the early childhood playground. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education.
Seven, Y., Irvin, D. W., Kothalkar, P. V., Dutta, S., Buzhardt, J. F., Rous, B., & Hansen, J. H. L. (2024). Capturing the quantity and location of adult wh-words in the preschool classroom using a sensing tool system. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 66, 168-177. /https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.10.008
Wallisch, A., Irvin, D., Kearns, W., Luo, Y., Boyd, B., & Rous, B. (2022). Exploring a novel tool to measure wandering behavior in the early childhood classroom. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and health.
https://doi.org/10.1177/15394492211065705
Irvin, D.W., Huffman, M.A., Luo, Y., Rous, B., Hansen, J.. (2021). Capturing talk and proximity in the classroom: Advances in measuring behavioral indicators of young children’s friendship development. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 57: 102-109.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.05.003
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Hansen, J., Najafian, M., Lileikyte, R., Irvin, D., & Rous, B. (2019). Speech and language processing for assessing child-adult interaction based on diarization and location. International Journal of Speech Technology (IJST). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-019-09590-0
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Little, L. M., Rojas, J. P., Bard, A., Luo, Y., Irvin, D., & Rous, B. (2019). Automated measures to understand communication opportunities for young children with autism in the community: A pilot study. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health. https://doi.org/10.1177/1539449219834911
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Presentations
Kothalkar, P., Irvin, D., Buzhardt, J., Rous, B., Hansen, J. (April, 2021). Detecting WH keywords spoken by preschool teachers during science activities using Automatic Speech Recognition technologies. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development. Virtual Conference.
Kothalkar, P., Irvin, D., Buzhardt, J., Rous, B., Hansen, J. (April, 2021). Tagging speech segments by adults and children from daylong recordings in preschool using Artificial Intelligence. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development. Virtual Conference.
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Luo, Y, Irvin, D., Buss, N., Guitierrez, A, & Rous, B. (December, 2020). Outdoor playground localization system for tracking young children using ubisense sensor network. Paper presented at The Third International Workshop on Smart Living with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SLICE 2020) held in conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS - 2020) at GNEC IIT Roorkee, Delhi NCR, India.
Rous, B., Irvin, D., & Buzhardt, J. (February 2020). Using technological advances to enhance EI/ECSE research. Presentation at the Conference on Research Innovations in Early Intervention, San Diego, CA.
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Wallisch, A., Irvin, D., Little, L., Kearns, B., Luo, Y., Boyd, B. & Rous, B. (February, 2020). Advancements in measuring wandering in the early childhood classroom. Poster at the Conference on Research Innovations in Early Intervention, San Diego, CA.