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| My focus is on solving information problems in the domain of
medicine and health. I am a PhD student in Biomedical and Health
Informatics at the University of Washington and have a BS in
Informatics from the Information School at the University of
Washington. I want to bringing knowledge from information science
and human-computer interaction to the design of technology in
medical informatics to create new and better solutions. I want to
focus on understanding information behavior and information needs in
a larger context of people’s goals and situations. This will enable
us to solve important information problems with innovative systems
that people find useful instead of frustrating and that help them
achieve their goals. Currently, I'm focusing on applying
user-centered design techniques in the creation of a system to
support the personal information management needs of breast cancer
patients. | |
Publications | |
| Meredith M. Skeels, Kiera Henning, Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, and
Wanda Pratt. Interaction Design for Literature-Based Discovery.
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI 2005), April 2005. Portland, OR. ACM Portal
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| Wanda Pratt, Kenton Unruh, Andrea Civan, and Meredith Skeels.
Personal health information management. Communications of the ACM,
January 2006. 49(1), p.51-55. ACM
Portal | |
| Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C.
Marshall, Manuel A. Perez-Quinonesis, Meredith M. Skeels, and
Tiziana Catarci. Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing
and abundant storage. Communications of the ACM, January 2006.
49(1), p.44-50. ACM
Portal | |
| Meredith M. Skeels, Ann Kurth, Marc Clausen, Anneleen Severynen, and
Hal Garcia-Smith. CARE+ User Study: Usability and Attitudes Towards
a Tablet PC Computer Counseling Tool for HIV+ Men and Women. Proc.
of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium
(AMIA'06), November 2006. Washington, D.C. PDF | |
| Andrea Civan, Meredith M. Skeels, Anna Stolyar, and Wanda Pratt. Personal
Health Information Management: Consumers’ Perspectives. Proc. of the
American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'06),
November 2006. Washington, D.C. PDF | |
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| At the University of Washington my advisor is Dr. Wanda Pratt and I am part of the iMed research group. One project I’ve worked on is LitLinker, which is a text-mining interface to help scientists discover hidden connections between concepts in the biomedical literature. My main contribution to LitLinker has been work designing an interface to display the results of the text-mining process. I am now in Biomedical and Health Informatics within the School of Medicine at the University of Washington. I am also part of the DUB center at UW, which is an alliance of people exploring issues in HCI. | |
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