Information, Child Mental Health and Society (2013-2014)

Imagine a world where all children receive the education, mental and physical care only available to privileged kids today. Imagine a world where children are seamlessly and effortlessly evaluated and diagnosed in real-time by their caregivers as they play. Imagine a world where the most important members of society, our children, receive the mental health attention they deserve and need to develop to their full potential and prosper in society. Imagine a world where we understand how to detect mental health and developmental problems in early childhood so that we can intervene early in life and prevent future suffering and impairment. This is a challenge that can only be addressed by an interdisciplinary team of computational people with child psychiatrists and neuroscientists who can integrate and mine knowledge from cross-cultural and global data. This project team engaged in data and video analysis for projects in child mental health.

Timing

2013-2014

This project team was originally part of the Education & Human Development theme of Bass Connections, which ended in 2022. 

Team Leaders

  • Helen Egger, School of Medicine: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Guillermo Sapiro, Pratt School of Engineering: Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Mariano Tepper, Pratt School of Engineering: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Graduate Team Members

  • Jordan Hashemi, Electrical/Computer Engg-PHD
  • Priscille Schettini, Medical Student

Undergraduate Team Members

  • Lucy Dicks-Mireaux, Public Policy (AB); Spanish (AB2)
  • Annie McDonough, Psychology (BS); Romance Studies (AB2)
  • Caroline Meade, Biology (BS)
  • Hunter Nisonoff, Mathematics (BS)

Community Organizations

  • Apple

Team Contributors

  • Kimberly Carpenter, School of Medicine: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Pablo Sprechmann, Pratt School of Engineering: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Themes