Publications
What to cite
Scott, K. M. and Schulz, L. E. (2017). Lookit (part 1): a new online platform for developmental research. Open Mind 1(1):4-14. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00002
Scott, K. M., Chu, J., and Schulz, L. E. (2017). Lookit (part 2): Assessing the viability of online developmental research, results from three case studies. Open Mind 1(1):15-29. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00001
These papers introduced a prototype of Lookit and reported on the initial test studies we ran. They may have helpful information about general considerations for unmoderated online research - e.g., do we basically see similar looking times even though the environment is noisier (spoilers: yes) and can you see where kids are looking from webcam (also yes)?
However, the platform itself has been renamed to “Children Helping Science” and completely re-engineered since these studies were conducted starting in 2014, so some of the details are no longer relevant - in particular, video quality is much better and we’re no longer collecting variable-framerate .flv files.
Published articles
Here’s some of the research that’s come out of the CHS (formerly “Lookit”) platform! There’s a lot more in prep, so if you’re interested in questions like whether someone’s tried X task on CHS and how it went, we recommend asking in the #researchers channel on Slack for more up-to-date info.
Conference symposia, talks, and posters
Beckner, A.G., Voss, A.T., Oakes, L.M., Casasola, M. (2021, April). Assessing the robustness of the mental rotation change detection procedure: the importance of task and context. In symposium: Infants’ learning about object properties and categories in diverse environments. Symposium conducted at the biennial Society for Research in Child Development (Virtual).
Bochynska, A., Scott, K., and Dillon, M. (2021, April). Bringing home Baby Euclid: Evaluating infants’ basic shape discrimination using the online platform Lookit. In symposium: Infants’ learning about object properties and categories in diverse environments. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Virtual).
Casey, K., Scott, K., Ashton, K., Gill, J., Simpson, E., and Bayet, L. (2021, April). Neonatal imitation of caregivers at home: Pre-registered analyses. Poster at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Virtual).
Cassamajor, K., Chu, J., Scott, K., and Schulz, L. (2021, April). A large-scale study of infant intuitive physics. Poster at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Virtual).
Chalik (2021, April). Moral behavior within and across social groups. In J. Dunlea (Chair), The role of social relationships in shaping children’s socio-moral reasoning. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Virtual).
Casey K., Scott K., Ashton K., Gill J., Simpson E., & Bayet L. (2020) Neonatal imitation of caregivers: A feasibility pilot. The CogSci 2020 Virtual Conference.
Yoon, E. J., Frank, M. C. (2019). Preschool children’s understanding of polite requests. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf], [repository].
Please help us add to this list!
If you’ve given a presentation or published a paper using CHS data, please share it here! You can add to this page by completing this Google docs form, or contact us on Slack or email (childrenhelpingscience@gmail.com).