Katie A. Siek
(Formal Bio)
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder

430 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA
Tel: (303) 492-5066
Fax: (303) 492-2844
ksiek-at-colorado.edu

Research Overview

Upcoming and Recent Events:

Keynote: I am the keynote presenter at InWIC 2012

Paper: Low Literacy Interface Design was accepted to IHI 2012

Program Committee: Pervasive Healthcare 2012

Paper: Exploring Low SES Health Routines with Multimedia Elicitations in JOPM

Paper: A Comprehensive Case Study [of the Colorado Care Tablet] in JOMS

Award: We received a CRA-W and Coalition to Diversity Computing Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) to explore wearable computing for rehabilitation.

Program Committee & Doctoral Consortium Committee: CHI 2012

Program Committee: 2011 AMIA Fall Symposium

Award: Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from SICSA

Award: NSF CAREER: Health Bridge: Motivating Personal Health Record Adoption by Low-Income Communities

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Past Events

I am an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder where I lead the Wellness Innovation and Interaction Lab. I am interested in integrating pervasive technologies in health and wellness environments to study how technology affects interventions. My research interests include human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, health informatics, and performance support systems. I am a faculty advisor for the Women in Computer Science group here at CU. (Formal Bio)

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Indiana University, 2006
• M.S., Computer Science, Indiana University, 2004
• B.S., Computer Science, Eckerd College, 2000

Professional

• CV (Last Update: 9/2011)
• Note to Students I Advise
• FAQ about Independent Studies/Theses/Projects
• Need a letter of recommendation?
• Note to Incoming Students

Student Collaborators

• Danish U. Khan (Ph.D. Student)
• Swaminathan Ananthanarayan (Ph.D. Student)
• Christopher Schaefbauer (Ph.D. Student)
• Allison Brown (Ph.D. Student)
• Halley Profita (Ph.D. Student, Co-Advised with Mike Eisenberg)
• Alice Chien (B.S. Student)
• Miranda Sheh (B.S. Student)
• Tuong An (Amy) Le (B.S. Student)

Alumni

• Gerald Pulver (Ph.D. Student)
• Mackenzie Miller (B.S. Student)
• Maryam Gooyabadi (B.S., 2010)

Affiliations

• Faculty in the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Area
• Faculty in the Translational Informatics Community
• Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) Fellow