Information Tools

Specializations

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Behavior Change

Courses

  • INFO 468 - Designing For Personal Health And Wellness

Biography

Sonu is a Guest Faculty Member at the Information School specializing in health informatics and health behavior change support. Her research focuses on supporting patient engagement and designing just-in-time interventions to help people achieve health behavior goals. She has previously held academic positions as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan and the Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition to her academic work, Sonu has a range of experiences working as a UX researcher, designer, or both in a variety of settings, including the University of Michigan Libraries, the Office of Research Information Services at the University of Washington, and the Data Science Lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

Education

  • Ph D, Information Science, University of Washington, 2019
  • MSI, University of Michigan School of Information, 2011
  • BA, linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

Publications and Contributions

  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Different roles with different goals: Designing to support shared situational awareness between patients and clinicians in the hospital (2021)
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 28(2), pp. 222-231 Authors: Ari H. Pollack, Sonu, Calvin Apodaca, Maher Khelifi, Shefali Haldar, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Designing Inpatient Portals to Support Patient Agency and Dynamic Hospital Experiences (2020)
    AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Authors: Shefali Haldar, Sonali R. Mishra, Maher Khelifi, Sonu, Calvin Apodaca, Erin Beneteau, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Eavesdropping': An Information Source for Inpatients (2020)
    CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 38(12), pp. 607-612 Authors: Erin Beneteau, Shefali Haldar, Sonu, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Workshop Paper
    Perspectives on The Validation of Behavior Change Interventions (2020)
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine, pp. S488-S488 Authors: Sonu, S. Haldar, P. Klasnja, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    The Patient Advice System: A Technology Probe Study to Enable Peer Support in the Hospital (2020)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Authors: Shefali Haldar, Yoojung Kim, Sonu, Hartzler, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    Where Are My Parents?: Information Needs of Hospitalized Children (2020)
    CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) Authors: Erin Beneteau, Sonu, Shefali Haldar, Calvin Apodaca, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Beyond the Patient Portal: Supporting Needs of Hospitalized Patients (2019)
    Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), pp. [1-14] Authors: Shefali Haldar, Sonu, Maher Khelifi, Ari H. Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Workshop Paper
    Eavesdropping: An Information Source for Inpatients (2019)
    2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Symposium for the Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH@CHI 2019) Authors: Erin Beneteau, Shefali Haldar, Sonu, Wanda Pratt
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Informatics opportunities to involve patients in hospital safety: a conceptual model (2019)
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, ocz167, pp. [1-10] Authors: Shefali Haldar, Sonu, Ari H. Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Supporting Coping with Parkinson's Disease Through Self Tracking (2019)
    Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Authors: Sonu, Predrag Klansnja, John MacDuffie Woodburn, Eric Hekler, Larsson Omberg, Michael Kellen, Lara Mangravite
  • Conference Paper
    Must We Bust the Trust? Understanding How the Clinician-Patient Relationship Influences Patient Engagement in Safety (2018)
    American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium Proceedings, pp. 1425-1434 Authors: Sonu, Shefali Haldar, Maher Khelifi, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Supporting Collaborative Health Tracking in the Hospital: Patients’ Perspectives (2018)
    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18) Authors: Sonu, Andrew Miller, Shefali Haldar, Maher Khelifi, Jordan Eschler, Rashmi Elera, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    Inpatient Perspectives and Information Needs for Error Prevention (abstract) (2017)
    AMIA Annual Symposium Authors: Shefali Haldar, Sonu, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Move into Another World of Happy: Insights for Designing Affect-Based Physical Activity Interventions (2017)
    PervasiveHealth-2017: 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare Authors: Sonu, Pedrag Klasnja
  • Conference Paper
    Opportunities and Design Considerations for Peer Support in a Hospital Setting (2017)
    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Authors: Shefali Haldar, Sonu, Maher Khelifi, Ari H Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    What Does 'What Does it Mean' Mean?: Suggestions for Contextualizing Lab Results for Pediatric Inpatients and Their Caregivers (2017)
    WISH (Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare) Authors: Sonu, Shefali Haldar, Maher Khelifi, Ari H. Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    'Scared to go to the Hospital': Inpatient Experiences with Undesirable Events (2016)
    Proceedings of the 2016 AMIA Annual Symposium Authors: Shefaldi Haldar, Alex Filipkowski, Sonu, Cory S Brown, Rashmi G Elera, Ari H Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    A Fair Exchange: Exploring How Online Privacy is Valued (2016)
    2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), pp. 1881-1890 Authors: Michael A Katell, Sonu, Ligaya Aline Scaff
  • Conference Paper
    Closing the Gap: Supporting Patients’ Transition to Self-Management after Hospitalization (2016)
    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16) Authors: Ari H Pollack, Uba Backonja, Andrew D Miller, Sonu, Logan Kendall, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    PD-atricians: Leveraging Physicians and Participatory Design to Develop Novel Clinical Information Tools (2016)
    Proceedings of the 2016 AMIA Annual Symposium Authors: Ari H Pollack, Andrew Miller, Sonu, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Partners in Care: Design Considerations for Caregivers and Patients During a Hospital Stay (2016)
    Proceedings of CSCW ’16, pp. 756-769 Authors: Andrew D Miller, Sonu, Logan Kendall, Shefali Haldar, Ari H Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    “Not Just a Receiver”: Understanding Patient Behavior in the Hospital Environment (2016)
    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16) Authors: Sonu, Shefali Haldar, Ari H Pollack, Logan Kendall, Andrew D Miller, Maher Khelifi, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Making background work visible: opportunities to address patient information needs in the hospital (2015)
    Proceedings of the 2015 AMIA Annual Symposium Authors: Logan Kendall, Sonu, Ari H Pollack, Barry Aaronson, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Poster
    Understanding the patient through visualization to improve provider-patient communication in hospitals: Know your patient to personalize your communication (2015)
    AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium Authors: Maher Khelifi, Logan Kendall, Sonu, Andrew Miller, Ari Pollack, Barry Aaronson, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Poster
    Designs to Support Informed Hospitalized Patients
    AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium Authors: Maher Khelifi, Shefali Haidar, Sonu, Calvin Apodaca, Erin Beneteau, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Exploring the Design of an Inpatient Peer Support Tool: Views of Adult Patients
    AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium Authors: Shefali Haidar, Sonu, Maher Khelifi, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Poster
    Is an Emoji Worth A Thousand Words? Pediatric Inpatient Perspectives on Pictorial Modes of Emotional Subtext in Electronic Health Communication
    AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium Authors: Calvin Apodaca, Shefali Haidar, Sonu, Maher Khelifi, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Must We Bust the Trust? Understanding How the Clinician-Patient Relationship Influences Patient Engagement in Safety
    AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium Authors: Sonu, Shefali Haidar, Maher Khelifi, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Supporting Goal-Based Collaboration for Hospitalized Children
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Vol. 5 (CSCW3), 5 Authors: Yiran Zhao, Yoojung Kim, Shefali Haldar, Sonu, Julia Dunbar, Calvin Apodaca, Reggie Casanova-Perez, Ari H. Pollack, Wanda Pratt
  • Conference Paper
    Theory is in the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Difficulties with Validating Intervention Mechanisms
    CHI 2021 Late-Breaking Work Track Authors: Wanda Pratt, Sonu, Shefali Haldar, Ari H. Pollack, Predrag Klasnja
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    Where Are My Parents?: Information Needs of Hospitalized Children
    CHI '20 Authors: Erin Beneteau, Sonu, Shefali Haldar, Calvin Apodaca, Ari Pollack, Wanda Pratt