university of utah biomedical informatics seminar slides

Social Participation in Health 2.0: Opportunities and Challenges

University of Utah, Biomedical Informatics Graduate School Seminar

April 5, 2012

Derek L. HansenInformation Technology, BYU

dlhansen@byu.edu@shakmatt

http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/derek-hansen/

Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information

Human-Computer Interaction Lab

A World of Social Technologies

Technology-mediated social participation (TMSP)

“The goal is to create new architectures for the online public spaces that energize the population to contribute to vital community and national priorities” - IEEE Computer, Nov. 2010

TMSP Examples

Socio-Technical Systems

Cognitive-Technical System Social-Technical System

How a Cockpit Remembers its SpeedHutchins, Edwin

Historical note: how methodology impacts findings

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Focus on Content Focus on Search Process, Usability, & Success

Research Opportunities & Strategies

• Develop tools & methods to study social health data in the wild

• Examine extraordinary socio-technical systems from other domains & translate them to health 2.0 contexts

• Develop & test novel socio-technical interventions in field studies

Making sense of social dataPatterns are left behind New Tools to explore relational data

New Methods & Visualizations for Exploring & mining social experience

“thimerosal” on Twitter

Examine Extraordinary Socio-Technical Systems Health 2.0 Systems

Develop & Test novel Socio-Technical Interventions

Computing Conferences that Welcome Health 2.0 Work

• ACM – CHI (Computer-Human Interaction)• ACM – CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)• ACM – SIGHIT’s International Health Informatics Symposium• ICWSM – International Conference on Weblogs & Social Media• IEEE SocalCom- Social Computing

Questions & Discussion

Derek L. HansenInformation Technology, BYU

dlhansen@byu.edu@shakmatt

http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/derek-hansen/