Frederick Shic
Scholar

Frederick Shic

Google Scholar ID: 34bu2-8AAAAJ
Seattle Children's Research Institute
autism spectrum disorderseye trackingaccessible technologiessocial roboticsdevelopmental psychopathology
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Research Experience
  • Director of the Seattle Children's Innovative Technologies Lab (SCITL)
  • Professor at the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development (CCHBD), Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics
  • Leading the MIND App study to pilot an app-based tool for identifying unique visual patterns in infants and children
  • Collaborating on the AVAIL Study with University of Florida researchers to build a library of behavioral assessment videos
  • Conducting multiple research studies on autism and other developmental disorders
Background
  • Director of the Innovative Technologies Lab (SCITL) at Seattle Children's Research Institute
  • Dedicated to using, advancing, and developing everyday technologies to improve the lives of children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities
  • Focuses on both theoretical and applied advances to help disconnected individuals connect with others
  • Mission is to bring radical, state-of-the-art, transformative technologies into everyday use to improve diagnostic precision, advance novel therapies, and better understand mechanisms of change across the lifespan
  • Committed to engaging diverse participants and staff in research
  • Research areas include biomarker development using eye tracking and near-infrared spectroscopy to track treatment effects, understand developmental/behavioral heterogeneity, and predict clinical outcomes; also develops mobile apps, video games, robots, smart toys, and virtual reality systems for next-generation sensing and therapeutics