Lookit: Online Interface for Large-Scale Developmental Studies

Bring science home! Visit Lookit to participate online anytime! Would your baby or young child like to participate in a research study by playing a fun game at home? Lookit is the Early Childhood Cognition Lab's new online laboratory. You can participate wherever and whenever it's convenient. Find studies for children ages 3 months to 5 years with a few mouse clicks. During 10-minute activities, children watch video clips or listen to stories and answer questions.

We are developing an online laboratory, “Lookit,” where parents and children can participate in developmental research from home by completing an activity in a web browser while the child’s responses are recorded via webcam. This work aims to mitigate practical constraints on the questions researchers can answer about how children learn by making it easier to collect larger and more representative samples, work with special populations, or run longitudinal studies as needed.