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Wanda Pratt is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans psychology, medicine, and health professions, with a focus on subfields such as social psychology, general health professions, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and reproductive medicine. The scientist's work addresses diverse topics, notably LGBTQ health, identity, and policy; sexuality, behavior, and technology; reproductive health and technologies; mobile health and mHealth applications; adolescent and pediatric healthcare; racial and ethnic identity research; and clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills.

Recent publications by Wanda Pratt include:

  • "Maybe they had a bad day: how LGBTQ and BIPOC patients react to bias in healthcare and struggle to speak out," 2022, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • "Association of Health Record Visualizations With Physicians' Cognitive Load When Prioritizing Hospitalized Patients," 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • "Self-Characterized Illness Phase and Information Needs of Participants in an Online Cancer Forum," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "User-centered design of a longitudinal care plan for children with medical complexity," 2020, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • "Different roles with different goals: Designing to support shared situational awareness between patients and clinicians in the hospital," 2020, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Wanda Pratt frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Transgender Health
  • Telemedicine Journal and e-Health

Collaborations with other researchers are a notable aspect of Pratt's career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Nicole F. Kahn
  • Dimitri Christakis
  • Gina M. Sequeira
  • Laura P. Richardson
  • Kacie M. Kidd

The scope of topics covered in Pratt's publications reflects a comprehensive approach to healthcare and social issues, including technology application and identity frameworks within clinical and public health settings. Their work intersects multiple disciplines, addressing both theoretical and practical problems in healthcare communication, patient experience, and health technology design.

Best Publications

  • Methodological Review: Healthcare in the pocket: Mapping the space of mobile-phone health interventions

    Predrag Klasnja;Wanda Pratt

  • Understanding quantified-selfers' practices in collecting and exploring personal data

    Eun Kyoung Choe;Nicole B. Lee;Bongshin Lee;Wanda Pratt

  • How to evaluate technologies for health behavior change in HCI research

    Predrag Klasnja;Sunny Consolvo;Wanda Pratt

  • Managing the Personal Side of Health: How Patient Expertise Differs from the Expertise of Clinicians

    Andrea Hartzler;Wanda Pratt

  • Personal health information management

    Wanda Pratt;Kenton Unruh;Andrea Civan;Meredith M. Skeels

  • Coordinating heterogeneous work: information and representation in medical care

    Madhu C. Reddy;Paul Dourish;Wanda Pratt

  • Incorporating ideas from computer-supported cooperative work

    Wanda Pratt;Madhu C. Reddy;David W. McDonald;Peter Tarczy-Hornoch

  • Collaborative Ontology Construction for Information Integration

    Adam Farquhar;Richard Fikes;Wanda Pratt;James Rice

  • Catalyzing social support for breast cancer patients

    Meredith M. Skeels;Kenton T. Unruh;Christopher Powell;Wanda Pratt

  • Temporality in Medical Work: Time also Matters

    Madhu C. Reddy;Paul Dourish;Wanda Pratt

  • SleepTight: low-burden, self-monitoring technology for capturing and reflecting on sleep behaviors

    Eun Kyoung Choe;Bongshin Lee;Matthew Kay;Wanda Pratt

  • Patients as actors: The patient's role in detecting, preventing, and recovering from medical errors

    Kenton T. Unruh;Wanda Pratt

  • Using statistical and knowledge-based approaches for literature-based discovery

    Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz;Wanda Pratt

  • A knowledge-based approach to organizing retrieved documents

    Wanda Pratt;Marti A. Hearst;Lawrence M. Fagan

  • Transparent Queries: investigation users' mental models of search engines

    Jack Muramatsu;Wanda Pratt

  • LitLinker: capturing connections across the biomedical literature

    Wanda Pratt;Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz

  • Effective Intervention or Child's Play? A Review of Video Games for Diabetes Education

    Jonathan DeShazo;Lynne Harris;Wanda Pratt

  • Using mobile & personal sensing technologies to support health behavior change in everyday life: lessons learned.

    Predrag V. Klasnja;Sunny Consolvo;David W. McDonald;James A. Landay

  • Sociotechnical requirements analysis for clinical systems.

    Madhu Reddy;W. Pratt;P. Dourish;M. M. Shabot

  • Health Vlogs as Social Support for Chronic Illness Management

    Jina Huh;Leslie S. Liu;Tina Neogi;Kori Inkpen

  • Personal health information management

    Andrea Civan;Meredith M. Skeels;Anna Stolyar;Wanda Pratt

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. McDonald
David W. McDonald University of Washington
Predrag Klasnja
Predrag Klasnja University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jacob O. Wobbrock
Jacob O. Wobbrock University of Washington
Sean A. Munson
Sean A. Munson University of Washington
Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish University of California, Irvine
Julie A. Kientz
Julie A. Kientz University of Washington
Richard Fikes
Richard Fikes Stanford University
Kori Inkpen
Kori Inkpen Microsoft (United States)
Mary Czerwinski
Mary Czerwinski Microsoft (United States)
John H. Gennari
John H. Gennari University of Washington

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