Medical Xpress September 23, 2022
What’s small and smart and worn all over?
It’s not a riddle, but a list of attributes envisioned by Nancy McElwain, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as she searched for a data collection tool compatible with her youngest research participants.
McElwain’s research focuses on attachment processes, or the relationships children form with their parents in infancy, and how those relationships shape social, emotional, and physiological development.
One challenge for McElwain is collecting information from children too young to self-report or operate a smart device on their own. This prompted her to connect with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Romit Roy Choudhury, professors of electrical and computer engineering.
Working together, the trio of researchers...
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