Keywords: consumer health informatics, information quality visualizations, information overload

I am an Associate Professor in both the Information School and the Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics in the Medical School at the University of Washington. I received my Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from Stanford University, my M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, and my B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas. My published papers span a wide range of topics whose central theme is to understand the problem of information overload in a variety of health contexts and to develop new types technology to address those problems. I received an NSF CAREER Award for my work on literature-based discovery systems, am on the editorial board for the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and serve on the standing NIH grant-review committee for the National Library of Medicine.

Publications

Locating Patient Expertise in Everyday Life.
Andrea Civan, David W. McDonald, Kenton Unruh and Wanda Pratt
Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
Using Mobile & Personal Sensing Technologies to Support Health Behavior Change in Everyday Life: Lessons Learned Using Mobile & Personal Sensing Technologies to Support Health Behavior Change in Everyday Life: Lessons Learned
Predrag Klasnja, Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, James A. Landay and Wanda Pratt
Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2009. Full paper (PDF)
Personal Health Information Management: Consumers’ Perspectives
Andrea Civan, Meredith M. Skeels, Anna Stolyar and Wanda Pratt
Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2006. Paper
Personal health information management
Wanda Pratt, Kenton Unruh, Andrea Civan and Meredith M. Skeels
Communications of the ACM, 2006. Article
Interaction Design for Literature-Based Discovery
Meredith M. Skeels, Kiera Henning, Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz and Wanda Pratt
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005. CHI Note