Nearly 300 years ago, the first Black performer to play Juliet was Rachael Baptiste, an Irishwoman also hugely successful as a singer. She performed in Lancashire in the mid-1700s.

What a curious dataset... are they fishing for most downloaded scientific dataset prize?

Astonishing. But so very predictable.

Excited to share that nominations are now open for the 2024 Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp/ISWC 2024! Recognize a PhD student making groundbreaking contributions in Ubiquitous Computing. Nominate today!

Some lovely talks in the autism session Anders Eskemyr yesterday - in particular, this one on Multisensory Integration of speech in autism from Dr Lena Matyjek

Jamie A Ward Anders Eskemyr Thank you! 🙏🏻 It’s not easy to follow the amazing energy and fascinating studies of Jamie A Ward 😉

Mariah … in May? Where have you brought us, escan2024 @ Ghent ?

Deadline Extended to June 14th. 3 days to go! For more detail of the ISWC '24 Design Exhibition: ubicomp.org/ubicomp-iswc-2… Looking forward to seeing your contributions. UbiComp ISWC.NET

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First, we calculate Wavelet Coherence as a measure of how each pair of people coordinate. We think this is a good measure of the social interactions going on in the classroom. And careful comparison of the wavelet scores with hand coding of video shows that it is.

We did this for 3 groups of kids - young autistic, older autistic and neurotypical 5 year olds in different lessons. For each group, we can visualise the social interaction network of the lesson. Here the kids (S1-S7) interact and the researchers (R1,R2) are left out.

We also compare whole groups, and find the neurotypical kids show much more social synchrony than everyone else

So overall, this paper gives us a whole new method for tracking and understanding patterns of social interaction in the real world. the wearable sensors are cheap and easy to use in many contexts, so we hope this can open up new opportunities to study human social synchrony

in kids and adults and any context. Read the full preprint for details osf.io/preprints/psya… and please give feedback - we are still looking for the right journal for this work.

New pre-print with Antonia Hamilton, Yanke Sun, Maria Bell, Thomas Gilbert and Sally Day!

Here's a direct link to our preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Lots going on this week with Flute Theatre - Shakespeare Summer Festival, until August 10th Riverside Studios