The Head Camera
The Head Camera
In a pre-visit, parents were informed about the goal of the study, consent was obtained, and they were instructed to use the camera. A hat was selected and fit to the child. Subsequently, the materials were delivered to the infant's home and the parents were reinstructed in the use of the camera.
Parents were not told that we were interested in faces or social events but were told that we were interested in visual development and the typical range of visual experiences of their infant. They were asked to record during the infants' waking hours and to try to capture four to six hours of video during daily activities when the infant was awake and alert.
Because of the complexity and demands of parenting young infants, they were given up to two weeks to complete their recording. The cameras were collected once parents had completed their recording; parents were debriefed and consistent with the consent procedure were asked if they wanted any segments deleted.
Homeview Corpus Information
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The Corpus
The corpus, with over 500 hours of head camera video promises new insights into the natural statistics of visual experiences for visual development generally, for visual object recognition, for human face perception, and for object name learning.
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The Head Camera
Recording the availability of faces in infants' everyday environments requires a method that is not disruptive of those daily environments. Accordingly, we use a wearable camera that was lightweight, cable-free, attached to daily-wear hats, and easy for parents to use.
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Procedure
In a pre-visit, parents were informed about the goal of the study, consent was obtained, and they were instructed to use the camera. A hat was selected and fit to the child. Subsequently, the materials were delivered to the infant's home and the parents were reinstructed in the use of the camera.
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Coding the Corpus
The videos collected from parents were screened for privacy and accidental recordings (1.5% of total recording) and those sections were subsequently removed from the dataset.
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Sample Data
These videos were obtained in the home setting. See how selective our momentary view of the world is and how it changes with development.