I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas. I work in clinical psychology and explore the links between mental health, affect, and interpersonal functioning. I collaborate with computer scientists and clinicians to develop technologies that support clinical practice. I use observational methods to quantify facial expressions and other behavioral signals. My main goal is to understand the role that behavioral signals play in emotion and interpersonal communication. I use data science techniques from statistics, machine learning, and software engineering to address research challenges. I love to develop, share, and teach about tools that increase scientific rigor and openness.
Lab Website: https://affcom.ku.edu
- circumplex - A stable R package for analyzing and visualizing circular data.
- mReliability - A stable (but approaching end-of-life) set of MATLAB functions for estimating inter-rater reliability.
- wcc - An experimental R package for conducting windowed cross-correlation analyses.
- varde - An experimental R package for decomposing the variance in mixed effects models.
- agreement - An experimental R package for estimating inter-rater reliability.
- CARMA - A stable (but approaching end-of-life) software for collecting continuous media annotations.
- DARMA - A stable (but approaching end-of-life) software for collecting continuous two-dimensional media annotations.
- tidymedia - An experimental R package for working with audio, video, and image files.
- openac - An experimental R package for automating common affective computing (and social signal processing) tasks.
- profiles - An experimental R package for managing multiple RStudio config profiles (and comes with RStudio addins).
- lordicon - A stable Quarto extension for embedding animated Lordicon icons in HTML.
- honeypot - An experimental Quarto extension for detecting LLM cheating on HTML assignments.
- embedpdf - A stable (but questioning) Quarto extension for embedding PDF files in HTML.
- rocker-bayes - A multiarchitecture (amd64/arm64) image for Bayesian analysis in R
- wsl-cuda-whisper - A WSL (amd64) image for AI transcription from R with CUDA-support
- wsl-ollama - A WSL (amd64) image for calling local LLMs from R with CUDA-support