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Project Spectrum

Cornell University

Department of Human Development and Game Design Initiative at Cornell

• Current
  • Matthew Belmonte (research group leader, autism family member)
  • Jeff Valla (postgraduate, study of normal cognitive variation)
  • Yue Yu (postgraduate, change detection in social and non-social percepts)
  • Darshana Tuladhar (postgraduate, auditory and language processing)
  • Barbara Ganzel (visiting researcher)
  • Keith Yoder (research aide)
  • Grace Chen (undergraduate, joint attention and stereotypies during communicative pointing)
  • Jeff Maendel (undergraduate, gaze and face perception)
  • Allie Keller (undergraduate, anxiety and deep pressure)
  • Ayo Ositelu (Biomedical M.Eng. student)
  • Kai Chen (Biomedical M.Eng. student)
• Alumni
  • August Zinsser (lead, game design & development, recruited to Loose Cannon Studios, now at Zynga)
  • Laura Lyman (undergraduate, now at SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine)
  • Brendan Bond (art director)
  • Tony Sidari (undergraduate, now at SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine)
  • Jordan Perlman (undergraduate)
  • Stephanie Wong (undergraduate)
  • Kristen Knodel (undergraduate)

Rochester Institute of Technology

Game Design and Development

• Current
  • Dave Schwartz (assistant professor)
  • Mike DeMauro (undergraduate game developer)
  • Bob Larivee (undergraduate, game design and development — facial stimuli)
  • Phil Levinson (undergraduate, game design and development — facial stimuli)
  • Will Wood (undergraduate, game design and development — facial stimuli)
• Alumni
  • Karl Orosz (undergraduate game developer, now at Microsoft)
  • Brian Chesbrough (undergraduate game developer, now at Microsoft)
  • Adam Nabinger (undergraduate game developer)
  • Brad Blankenship (undergraduate game developer)
  • Brian Murphy (undergraduate game developer)
  • Mike Dapiran (undergraduate game developer)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Department of Neurology: Treatment Research and Neuroscience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

• Martha Herbert (research group leader)
• Tal Kenet (neuroscientist, study of motion perception)

University of California San Diego

Laboratory for Research on Aging and Development

• Jeanne Townsend (research group leader)
• Marissa Westerfield (neuroscientist — multivariate EEG data analysis; autism family member)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Media Laboratory:Affective Computing Group

• Matthew Goodwin (director of clinical research)
• Roz Picard (research group leader)

Work With Us

We are also looking for suggestions from people with autism or autism spectrum conditions, from their family members and caregivers, and from other autism researchers as to tasks and measures to include in the game. If you'd like to make a suggestion, or if you'd like to use the game in your own research, please send mail to collaborators at AutismCollaborative dot org. We are interested in player-controlled, event-driven tasks that allow people with autism opportunities to demonstrate their true abilities, and in interpretations that frame autistic cognitive differences without bias towards deficits or superiorities.