Andrea (Hartzler) Civan's Publications, Proceedings, and Posters:


Peer-Reviewed Full-Length Publications: (in chronologic order)

1.      Teller DY, Pereverzeva M, & Civan A (2003). Adult brightness vs. luminance as models of infant photometry: variability, biasability, and spectral characteristics for the two age groups favor the luminance model. Journal of Vision3(5):333-46.

2.      Teller, DY, Civan A, & Bronson-Castain K. (2004) Infants' spontaneous hue preferences are not due solely to adult-like brightness variations. Visual Neuroscience 21(3):397-401.

3.      Civan A, Teller DY & Palmer J. (2005) Relations Between Spontaneous Preferences, Familiarized Preferences, and Novelty Effects: Measurements With Forced-Choice Techniques. Infancy, 7(2):111-142

4.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2006) Supporting Consumers by Characterizing the Quality of Online Health Information: A Multidimensional Framework. Proc. 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), IEEE publication, January 4-7, Kauai, Hawaii., Vol 5, p. 88a.  (Best paper award nomination)

5.      Pratt W, Unruh K, Civan A & Skeels MM. (2006) Personal Health Information Management. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Special Issue on Personal Information Management, 49(1):51-55.

6.      Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. (2006) Personal Health Information Management: Consumers' perspectives. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, Washington DC., p.156-160.

7.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2007) Threading Together Patient Expertise, Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium Nov. 2007, Chicago IL., p. 140-144. (Distinguished paper award nomination)

8.      Civan A & Pratt W. (2007) Information Systems and Healthcare XXII: Characterizing and Visualizing the Quality of Health Information. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 20, article 18. (an extended version of the HICSS 2006 conference paper)

9.      Jones W, Klasnja P, & Civan A. The Personal Project Planner: Planning to organize personal information. To Appear in Proc. CHI 2008.

10. Civan A, Jones W, Klasnja P, & Bruce H. Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?: The Devil Is in the Details. Accepted for presentation at ASIS&T Annual Meeting, October, 2008.

Peer-Reviewed Extended Abstracts: (in chronologic order)

1.       Lia B., Dobkins K., Hartzler A., Palmer J., & Teller D.Y. (1996). Three-month-old infants respond to color-defined quadrature-shifted apparent motion stimuli. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

2.       Teller, DY, Civan A, & Bronson-Castain K. (2003) Are infants' spontaneous hue preferences determined by saturation differences? 17th Symposium of the International Color Vision Society, Seattle, WA.

3.       Teller D, Civan A, Bronson-Castain K, & Pereverseva M. (2003) Infants' spontaneous hue preferences are not solely due to variations in perceived brightness. Journal of Vision 3(9);142a

4.       Civan AL, Teller DY & Palmer J. (2003) Infant Color Vision: Spontaneous preferences versus novelty preferences as indicators of chromatic discrimination among suprathreshold stimuli. Journal of Vision 3(9);712a

5.       Civan A & Pratt W. (2004) Online Health Information: Multiple Dimensions of Quality. Proc MEDINFO , p.1557

6.       Civan A & Pratt W. (2004) Health information on the World Wide Web: A Multidimensional framework of Quality. National Library of Medicine Informatics Training conference 2004, Indianapolis, IN., p.58

7.       Civan A, Doctor JN & Wolf FM. (2005) What Makes a Good Format: Frameworks for Evaluating the Effect of Graphic Risk Formats on Consumers’ Risk-Related Behavior. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, p. 927

8.       Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. (2006) Exploring Personal Health Information Management. National Library of Medicine Informatics Training conference 2006, Nashville, TN., p.41

9.       Civan A, Gennari JH, & Pratt W. (2006) Integrating protocol schedules with patients' personal calendars. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, p. 892, Washington DC.

Conference Presentations:

Civan A & Pratt W. Supporting Consumers by Characterizing the Quality of Online Health Information: A Multidimensional Framework. 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, Hawaii. January, 2006. (Best paper award nomination)

Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. Exploring Personal Health Information Management. National Library of Medicine Informatics Training conference, Nashville, TN., June, 2006

Civan A, Skeels MM, Stolyar A, & Pratt W. Personal Health Information Management: Consumers' perspectives. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium, Washington DC. November, 2006

Bruce, H, Civan A. & Klasnja P. Personal Information Management: The role of structure and metaphor. iEdge Conference, Seattle, WA. March, 2007

Civan A & Pratt W. Threading Together Patient Expertise. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium, Chicago, IL., November, 2007


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