Publications

Klasnja, P., Pratt, W. (In Press) Healthcare in the Pocket: Mapping the Space of Mobile-Phone Health Interventions. Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Hartzler, A., Pratt, W. (2011) Managing the Personal Side of Health: How Patient Expertise Differs from the Expertise of Clinicians. Journal of Medical Internet Research. J Med Internet Res 2011 (Aug 16); 13(3):e62 http://www.jmir.org/2011/3/e62/
Hartzler, A., Skeels, M, Mukai, M, Powell, C., Klasnja, P., Phan, G. & Pratt, W (2011) Sharing is caring, but not error free: Transparency of granular controls for sharing personal health information in social networks. AMIA Fall Symposium, Oct 2011. Washington D.C.
Klasnja, P., Hartzler, A., Powell, C., & Pratt, W. (2011) Supporting cancer patients’ unanchored health information management with mobile technology. AMIA Fall Symposium, Oct 2011. Washington D.C.
Klasnja, P., Consolvo, S., & Pratt, W. (2011). How to Evaluate Technologies for Health Behavior Change in HCI Research. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). May 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
Kendall, L, Klasnja, P, Hartzler, A, Pratt, W (2011). Descriptive Analysis of Physical Activity Conversations on Twitter. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). May 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
DeShazo, J., Harris, L., and Pratt, W. (2010) Effective intervention or child's play? A review of video games for diabetes education. Diabetes Technology and Therapy. Oct;12(10):815-22.
DeShazo, J., Harris, L., Turner, A., and Pratt, W. (2010) Grounded in Theory, User-Centered, and Someplace Else: Designing and Remotely Testing Mobile Diabetes Video Games. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 16(7):378-82.
Klasnja, P., Hartzler, A., Powell, C., Phan, G. & Pratt, W. (2010) HealthWeaver Mobile: Designing a Mobile Tool for Managing Personal Health Information during Cancer Care. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'10). Nov 2010, Washington D.C.
Unruh, K.T., Skeels, M., Civan-Hartzler, A., & Pratt, W. (2010). Transforming Clinic Environments into Information Workspaces for Patients. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10). April 2010, Atlanta, GA.

Skeels, M., Unruh, K.T., Powell, C., & Pratt, W. (2010). Catalyzing Social Support for Breast Cancer Patients. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10). April 2010, Atlanta, GA.

Klasnja, P., Civan-Hartzler, A., Unruh, K.T., & Pratt, W. (2010). Blowing in the Wind: Unanchored Patient Information Work During Cancer Care. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10). April 2010, Atlanta, GA.

Civan, A., McDonald, D., Powell, C., Skeels, M., Mukai, M., & Pratt, W. (2010) Bringing the Field into Focus: User-Centered Design of a Patient Expertise Locator. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10). April 2010, Atlanta, GA.

Klasnja, P., Consolvo,S., McDonald, D., Landay, J., and Pratt, W. (2009) Using Mobile & Personal Sensing Technologies to Support Health Behavior Change in Everyday Life: Lessons Learned Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'09). San Francisco, CA

A. Civan, D. McDonald, K. T. Unruh, W. Pratt (2009). Locating Patient Expertise in Everyday Life. Proceedings of GROUP '09 PMCID: 134861

M. Yetisgen-Yildiz, W. Pratt (2009).  A New Evaluation Methodology for Literature-Based Discovery Systems. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.12.001

K. T. Unruh and W. Pratt. (2008) The Invisible Work of Being a Patient and Implications for Health Care: “[the doctor is] my business partner in the most important business in my life, staying alive.” Conference Proceedings: Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC ’08). Copenhagen. PMCID: 137109

Unruh, K., & Pratt, W. (2008) Barriers to Organizing Information during Cancer Care:  “I don’t know how people do it” Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'08). Washington D.C.  (Diana Forsythe Award nomination)

M. Yetisgen-Yildiz and W. Pratt. (2008) Evaluation of Literature-based Discovery Systems. Literature based Discovery, Editors: P.D. Bruza and M. Weeber, Springer, 2008.

M. Yetisgen-Yildiz, W. Pratt (2008).  Finding the Meaning of Medical Concept Correlations, Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium

C. Shore, Z. Birchmeier, M. desJardins, W. Pratt, and H. Schielka, (2007) “Time-to-degree: Some suggestions for keeping on schedule as a PhD student,” APS Observer Student Notebook.

Civan, A. & Pratt, W. (2007) Threading Together Patient Expertise. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'07). Chicago, IL.(nominated for Best Paper Award)
Civan, A., W. Pratt. (2007), Characterizing and Visualizing the Quality of Health Information. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 20, article 18
A. Civan, J.H. Gennari, W. Pratt. (2006) Integrating Protocol Schedules With Patients’ Personal Calendars (extended abstract). Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium Extended abstract. Washington D.C. November 2006
Civan, A., Skeels, M. M., Stolyar, A., Pratt, W. (2006). Personal Health Information Management: Consumers’ Perspectives. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'06). Washington, D.C.
Yetisgen-Yildiz, M., & Pratt, W. (2006). Using statistical and knowledge-based approaches for literature-based discovery. Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI): 39(6):600-11
Blake, C., & Pratt, W. (2006). Collaborative information synthesis I: A model of information behaviors that surround synthesis activities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) v57n11:1740-1749
Blake, C., & Pratt, W. (2006). Collaborative information synthesis II: System recommendations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) v57n12:1888-95
Unruh, K., & Pratt, W. (2006). Patients as actors: The patient’s role in detecting, preventing, and recovering from medical errors. International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Reddy, M., Dourish, P., & Pratt, W. (2006). Temporality in medical work: Time also matters. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW). vol. 15, no. 1, p. 29-53.
Civan, A., & Pratt, W. (2006). Supporting consumers by characterizing the quality of online health information: A multidimensional framework. Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). January 4-7, 2006, Computer Society Press. (nominated for best paper award)
Pratt, W., Unruh, K., Civan, A., & Skeels, M. (2006). Managing health information in your life. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), 49(1), 51-55.
M.M. Skeels, K. Henning, M. Yetisgen-Yildiz, and W. Pratt.(2005) Interaction Design for Literature-Based Discovery. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, OR. April 2005.
M. Reddy, D.W. McDonald, W. Pratt, and M.M. Shabot. Technology, Work, and Information Flows: Lessons from the Implementation of a Wireless Alerts Pager System. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2005; v38:p.229-238
K. Unruh and W. Pratt. (2004) Patients as Actors: the Role of Patients in Preventing Medical Errors. International Conference on IT in Health Care: Socio-technical Approaches. Portland, OR. September 2004.
W. Pratt, M.C. Reddy, D.W. McDonald, P. Tarczy-Hornoch, J.H. Gennari. Incorporating Ideas from Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2004; v37:1p.28-137.
W. Pratt, Yetisgen-Yildiz. LitLinker: Capturing Connections across the Biomedical Literature, Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'03). p. 105-112. Florida, October 2003.
W. Pratt, M. Yetisgen-Yildiz. A Study of Biomedical Concept Identification: MetaMap vs. People, Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'03). p. 529-533. Washington D.C. November, 2003.
M. Reddy, W. Pratt, D.W. McDonald, and M.M. Shabot. Challenges to Physicians’ Use of A Wireless Alert Pager, Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'03). p. 544-548. Washington D.C. November, 2003. (nominated for Diana Forsythe Best Paper of the Year Award)
M. Reddy, W. Pratt, P. Dourish, and M.M. Shabot. Sociotechnical Requirements Analysis for Clinical Systems, Methods of Information in Medicine, Special Issue on Information Technology in Healthcare: Sociotechnical Approaches. 2003; 42: 437-44.
M. Reddy, W. Pratt, P. Dourish, and M.M. Shabot. Asking Questions: Information Needs in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'02). San Antonio TX. November, 2002. (Winner of Diana Forsythe Best Paper of the Year Award)
C. Blake, W. Pratt and T. Tengs. Automated Information Extraction and Analysis for Information Synthesis. Extended Abstract. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Conference (AMIA'02), San Antonio, TX. November 2002.

C. Blake, W. Pratt. Collaborative Information Synthesis. American Society for Information Science and Technology - Proceedings of ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 2002.

C. Blake, W. Pratt. Automatically Identifying Candidate Treatments from Existing Medical Literature. AAAI Spring Symposium on Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases, California. March 2002.
C. Blake, W. Pratt. Better Rules, Fewer Features: A Semantic Approach to Selecting Features from Text. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. San Jose, California. p.59-66. November 2001.
J. Muramatsu , W. Pratt. Transparent Queries: Investigating Users' Mental Models of Search Engines. SIGIR-01: Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New Orleans, LA. September 2001.
M. Reddy, P. Dourish, and W. Pratt. Coordinating Heterogeneous Work: Information and Representation in Medical Care. Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'01). p.239-258. Bonn, Germany. September 2001.
W. Pratt, L. Fagan. The Usefulness of Dynamically Categorizing Search Results. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). 2000; 7(6) p. 605-617.
W. Pratt, H. Wasserman. QueryCat: Automatic Categorization of MEDLINE Queries. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium 2000. p. 655-659.
C. Blake, W. Pratt. Multiple Categorization of Search Results: An Extension to Dynamic Categorization. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium 2000.
W. Pratt, M. Hearst, L. Fagan. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Organizing Retrieved Documents. AAAI-99: Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. p. 80-85. July 1999.
X. Ge, W. Pratt, P. Symth. Discovering Chinese Words from Unsegmented Text. Extended Abstract. SIGIR-99: Proceedings of the Twenty-second International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Berkeley, CA. August 1999.
W. Pratt. Dynamic Categorization: A Method for Decreasing Information Overload. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. March 1999.
W. Pratt. Dynamic Organization of Search Results Using the UMLS. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (formerly SCAMC), Nashville, TN, October 1997.
W. Pratt. Dynamic Organization of Search Results Using a Taxonomic Domain Model. Extended abstract. AAAI-97: Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Providence, RI, July 1997.

R. Fikes, A. Farquhar, & W. Pratt. Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources. Proceedings of the Ninth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS-96), Key West, Florida, 192-197. 1996.

A. Farquhar, R. Fikes, W. Pratt, & J. Rice. Collaborative Ontology Construction for Information Integration. Knowledge Systems Laboratory Technical Report, KSL-95-63, August 1995.

J. H. Gennari, D. E. Oliver, W. Pratt, J. Rice, & M. A. Musen. A Web-Based Architecture for a Medical Vocabulary Server. Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC-95), New Orleans, LA, 275-279. 1995.

W. Pratt & I. Sim. Physician's Information Customizer (PIC): Using a Shareable User Model to Filter the Medical Literature. Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO'95), July 1995.

R. Fikes, R. Engelmore, A. Farquhar, & W. Pratt. Network-based Information Brokers. Knowledge Systems Laboratory Technical Report, KSL-95-13, AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium on Information Gathering Agents, March 1995.

A. Farquhar, A. Dappert, R. Fikes, & W. Pratt. Integrating Information Sources Using Context Logic. Knowledge Systems Laboratory, KSL-95-12, AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium on Information Gathering Agents, March 1995.

P. Blair, R. Guha, W. Pratt. Microtheories: An Ontological Engineer's Guide, MCC Technical Report, CYC-050-92, March 1992.

W. Pratt, S. Siconolfi, L. Webster, B. Harris; A Comparison between Computer-Controlled and Set Work Rate Exercise Based on Target Heart Rate. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine; September 1991.

D. Lenat, R. Guha, D. Pratt, K. Pittman, W. Pratt, K. Goolsbey; The World According to Cyc, Part 4., MCC Technical Report, ACT-CYC-022-91; January 1991.

 

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