Online health communities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2129-2132

  Neal, Lisa ^a   Oakley, Kate ^b   Lindgaard, Gitte ^b   Kaufman, David ^c   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^d   Selker, Ted ^e  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; e learning; Evaluation; Health care; Medicine; Online communities; Online health communities; Support groups; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MEDICINE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HEALTH LITERACY; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITIES; SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG);

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 35348871994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1240965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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