Contributing to Web Development for Digitally Diagnosing Autism and ADHD with 2-Player Computer Games
Peter Washington, Professor
UC San Francisco
Applications for Fall 2025 are closed for this project.
The UCSF TECH Lab (https://techlab.ucsf.edu/) led by Dr. Peter Washington at UCSF (DoC-IT, with appointments in the CPH and BMI PhD programs) is looking for a student researcher working as a full-stack web developer (Django for backend, Tailwind for frontend) to contribute to build features on a website for digitally diagnosing autism and ADHD using 2-player computer games.
See this research protocol paper for more details about the purpose of the website: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2024/1/e52205
Role: Tasks: meet with the interdisciplinary research team to understand app specs, develop and iterate on website features, help co-write the resulting research publications that use the website as a published co-author
Learning Outcomes: (1) website development best practices with a large team, (2) designing digital health applications, (3) research paper writing in the field of consumer digital health informatics
Qualifications: Familiarity with or ability to quickly learn Django and Python for backend web development and HTML/CSS, Tailwind, and Daisy UI for frontend development.
Hours: to be negotiated
Off-Campus Research Site: Remote
Related website: https://techlab.ucsf.edu/
Related website: socialplai.com