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ABSTRACT
Good Behavior: Sharing, and Reusing Research Video
Behavior is infinitely rich. In natural and laboratory settings, children exhibit an extraordinary array of behaviors—visual exploration, facial expressions, speech, gestures, locomotion, and social interactions. Video captures much of this richness and complexity. Using a broad range of examples, I show how video makes the fleeting, ephemeral nature of behavior tangible and permanent, and how researchers can use video to find the extraordinary in the most ordinary behaviors and, conversely, to reveal hidden structure in the most extraordinary behaviors. Indeed, video is so rich that it can be reused to ask new questions beyond the scope of the original study. In this sense, all behavior is good behavior—valuable to other researchers and capable of yielding new insights into the causes and consequences of learning and development. Data reuse exploits the richness of video to increase scientific transparency, accelerate the pace of discovery, and facilitate understanding of the causes of health and disease. These ideas motivate the Databrary project (databrary.org), funded by NIH and NSF, which enables video sharing and reuse among developmental researchers. With Databrary, the contribution of a particular dataset will no longer depend on the private activities of one researcher, but will instead benefit from the imagination of many researchers with different viewpoints.
Bio
Karen E. Adolph is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at New York University. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, her Ph.D. from Emory University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Adolph leads the Databrary.org project to enable video data sharing and reuse among developmental scientists. She is a Fellow of APA and APS and President of the International Congress of Infant Studies. She received the Cattell Sabbatical Award, APF Fantz Memorial Award, APA Boyd McCandless Award, ISIS Young Investigator Award, FIRST and MERIT awards from NICHD, and five teaching awards from NYU. She chaired the NIH study section on Motor Function and Speech Rehabilitation and serves on the Advisory Board of the McDonnell Foundation and the editorial board of Developmental Psychobiology. Adolph’s research examines effects of body growth, exploratory activity, environmental and social supports, and culture on perceptual-motor learning and development.
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