An early-stage study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that diagnosis of autism based on video taken using an in-development smartphone app concurred with diagnosis using traditional, in-person methods 87% of the time. Boise, Idaho-based Behavior Imaging Solutions and others are developing the app, dubbed the The NODA system (Naturalistic Observation Diagnosis Assessment). It asks parents to take a 10-minute video of their child in three settings and record their own personal concerns and observations. "You can't just ask a parent to record," Georgia Tech researcher Agata Rozga said. "You need to think about what does the clinician need to see to provide a proper diagnostic assessment. So part of the work went into thinking about what are the right scenarios to record? What are the right instructions to parents about how to set up the video and what to do during the recording?" Article