Open Science holds the promise to make scientific endeavours more inclusive, participatory,
understandable, accessible and re-usable for large audiences. However, making processes …

Mobile sensing refers to the collection of methods by which researchers derive measures of
human behaviours and contexts from the onboard sensors and logs found in smartphones …

Conversation—a verbal interaction between two or more people—is a complex, pervasive,
and consequential human behavior. Conversations have been studied across many …

Early environmental experiences influence children's cognitive and neural development. In
particular, cognitive stimulation, defined as environmental inputs that engage the senses …

Anthropological reports have long suggested that speaking to young children is very
infrequent in certain populations (notably farming ones), which is in line with scattered …

Assessing infant carrying and holding (C/H), or physical infant-caregiver interaction, is
important for a wide range of contexts in development research. An automated detection and …

Mobile sensing is a ubiquitous and useful tool to make inferences about individuals' mental
health based on physiology and behavior patterns. Along with sensing features directly …

Parents play an essential role in supporting child development by providing a safe home,
proper nutrition, and rich educational opportunities. In this article we focus on the role of …

Background Wearable devices permit the continuous, unobtrusive collection of data from
children in their natural environments and can transform our understanding of child …

It is well established that deictic gestures, especially pointing, play an important role in
children's language development. However, recent evidence suggests that other types of …