Publications

Peer Reviewed Conference and Journal Publications

Lily V Jeffs*, Julia C Dunbar*, Sanaa Syed, Chelsea Ng, Ari H Pollack, Navigating normalcy: designing personal health visualizations for pediatric kidney transplant recipients and caregivers, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 31, Issue 11, November 2024, Pages 2519–2528, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae206 (co-first author)

Julia C. Dunbar, Wanda Pratt, Emily Bascom, Cara Currier, Joseph William Tan Garcia, Jodi Smith, Jaime Snyder, and Ari H Pollack. 2024. It's About the Journey - Capturing Stories of the Fluctuating Experiences of Youth Kidney Transplant Patients. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 213 (April 2024), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3653704

Dunbar JC, Bascom E, Pratt W, Snyder J, Smith JM, Pollack AH. My Kidney Identity: Contextualizing pediatric patients and their families kidney transplant journeys. Pediatr Transplant. 2022 Nov;26(7):e14343. doi: 10.1111/petr.14343. Epub 2022 Jul 21. PMID: 35863916; PMCID: PMC11316969.

Julia C. Dunbar, Emily Bascom, Ashley Boone, and Alexis Hiniker. 2021. Is Someone Listening? Audio-Related Privacy Perceptions and Design Recommendations from Guardians, Pragmatists, and Cynics. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 3, Article 98 (Sept 2021), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478091

Yiran Zhao, Yoojung Kim, Calvin Apodaca, Regina Casanova-Perez, Shefali Haldar, Sonali R. Mishra, Julia C. Dunbar, Ari Pollack, and Wanda Pratt. 2021. Supporting Goal-Based Collaboration for Hospitalized Children. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 164 (April 2021), 22 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449238

Juan F. Maestre, K. Cassie Kresnye, Julia C. Dunbar, Ciabhan L. Connelly, Katie A. Siek, and Patrick C. Shih. 2020. Conducting HCI Research with People Living with HIV Remotely: Lessons Learned and Best Practices. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3375202

Ben Jelen, Julia Dunbar, Susan Monsey, Olivia K. Richards, and Katie A. Siek. 2019. Utilizing the Affinity Research Group Model in a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 990–996. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287501

Juan F. Maestre, Haley MacLeod, Ciabhan L. Connelly, Julia C. Dunbar, Jordan Beck, Katie A. Siek, and Patrick C. Shih. 2018. Defining Through Expansion: Conducting Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) Research with Stigmatized Groups. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 557, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174131

Dissertation

My Story Has a Hopeful Future: Using Digital Journaling to Empower Youth Living with a Chronic Illness. Dunbar, Julia Constance. University of Washington ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024. 31490366.

Published Protocols + Reports

Prepared for Wellcome Trust by Sage Bionetworks. Bridging the gap: building trust between researchers and participants collecting mental health data. Wellcome Trust. 29 September 2022. https://wellcome.org/reports/bridging-gap-building-trust-between-researchers-and-participants-collecting-mental-health. - (PDF of Report)

MindKind Consortium. MindKind: A mixed-methods protocol for the feasibility of global digital mental health studies in young people. Wellcome Open Res. 2022 May 12;6:275. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17167.2. PMID: 35686088; PMCID: PMC9160707.

Papers Under Review

Workshop Papers

Calvin Apodaca, Julia Dunbar, Katherine Cross, Jason Yip, Ari Pollack, and Wanda Pratt. VR Spaces For Safe Places. In Proceedings of the 2020 SIGCHI Workshop on Technology Ecosystems: Rethinking Resources for Mental Health at CHI 2020.

Julia C. Dunbar, Ciabhan L. Connelly, Juan F. Maestre, Haley MacLeod, Katie Siek, Patrick Shih. Considerations for Using the Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) Method in Health Informatics Research. In Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare at the American Medical Informatics Association (WISH@AMIA 2017). - Link to Workshop Paper

Presentations/Posters/Abstracts

Dunbar, J., Pratt, W., Jeffs, L., Ng, C., Syed, S., Smith, J., Pollack, A.H. My Kidney T.R.E.K. - Thinking, Reflecting, and Empowering Kidney Transplant Patients, through technology. Pediatric Academic Societies, April 24-28, 2025. Honolulu, Hawaii - (Abstract + Poster)

Ng, C., Dunbar, J., Syed, S., Pan, N., Smith, J., Pollack, A.H. Using Visualizations to Convey Complex Health Information to Youth Kidney Transplant Recipients. . Pediatric Academic Societies, April 24-28, 2025. Honolulu, Hawaii - (Abstract + Poster)

Julia C. Dunbar, et al. “It's About the Journey - Capturing Stories of the Fluctuating Experiences of Youth Kidney Transplant Patients.” ACM CSCW Conference Presentation. Nov. 2024 - (PDF of Slide Deck)

Julia C. Dunbar and Ari Pollack. “Life Participation: Using Imagery to Empower and Support Families Throughout Their Transplant Journey.” Pediatric Transplant Conference. April 2022. (invited presentation)

Julia C. Dunbar and Megan Doerr. “Applied ELSI Research: Bridging the Gap.” S4 Speaker Series, Sage Bionetworks. April 2022. (invited presentation)

Dunbar JC, Bascom EE, Pratt W, Snyder J, Smith JM, Pollack AH. The Impact of the Kidney Transplant Journey on Patient’s and Parent’s Identities and Self-Management [abstract]. Am J Transplant. 2021; 21 (suppl 3). https://atcmeetingabstracts.com/abstract/the-impact-of-the-kidney-transplant-journey-on-patients-and-parents-identities-and-self-management/.

Calvin Apodaca, Julia Dunbar, Katherine Cross, Jason Yip, Ari Pollack, and Wanda Pratt. VR Spaces for Safe Places. 2020. Technology Ecosystems: Rethinking Resources for Mental Health Workshop at CHI 2020. (presentation canceled due to COVID-19)

Dunbar, Julia C., Calvin R. Apodaca, Katherine Cross, Jason Yip Ari H. Pollack, and Wanda Pratt. “Social Virtual Reality (VR) Spaces for Interactive Use in Pediatric Hospital Patient Wards. In AMIA 2020. (poster and virtual presentation)

Considerations for Using the Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) Method in Health Informatics Research. 2017. WISH@AMIA 2017. (poster and presentation)

Human and Machine Interactions (AI Research). 2015. American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).