The characteristics of the use of Twitter by beginners: Study of the applicability to the e-healthcare

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1268-1273

  Oda, Masaomi ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

beginner; behavior motivation; e healthcare; human interface; SNS

Indexed keywords

BEGINNER; COMMUNICATION TOOLS; E-HEALTHCARE; HUMAN INTERFACE; SNS; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES;

CYBERNETICS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOTIVATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 83755172976     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083834     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. Eysenbach, G. Powell, J., Englesakis, M., Rizo, C., and Stern, A. 2004. Health related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer to peer interactions. Bmj. 328, 15 (May 2004). 1-6.
2. Frost, J. H. and Massagli, M. P. 2008. Social uses of personal health information within PatientLikeMe, an online patient community: what can happen when patients have access to one another's data. J Med Internet Res. 10(3), e15.
3. Cornwell, E.Y. and Waite L. J. 2009. Social disconnectedness, perceived isolation, and health among older adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 50, 31- 48.
4. Ross, C., Orr, E. S., Sisic, M., Arseneault, J. M., M. G., Simmering, and Orr, R. R. 2009. Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use. Computers in Human Behavior. 25, 578-586.
5. Liaw, S. S. 2002. Understanding user perceptions of worldwide web environments, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 18, 137-148.
6. Botella, C., Etchemendy, E., Castilla, D., Banos, R. M., Garcia-Palacios, A., Quero, S., Alcaniz, M., and Lozano, J. A. 2009. An e-health system for the elderly (Butler Project): a pilot study on acceptance and satisfaction. Cyberpsychology & Behavior. 12, 3.
7. Nguyen, M. T., Fuhrer, P., and Pasquier-Rocha, J. 2009. Enhancing ehealth information systems with agent technology. International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2009, Article ID 279091, 13 pages.
8. Eysenbach, G. 2008. Medicine 2.0: social networking, collaboration, participation, apomediation, and openness. J Med Internet Res, 10(3): e22.
9. Backstrom, L., Huttenlocher, D., Kleinberg, J., and Lan, X. 2006. Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution, KDD'06, (August 2006), 20-23.
10. Toru Saito, http://blogs.itmedia.co.jp/saito/2011/01/mixi-twitter-fa. html, 2011.1.19 (in Japanese).
11. Diary of Chikirin, 2010. Barrier of the hierarchy is lost, too, http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Chikirin/20100519, 2010.08.25 (in Japanese).
12. Kwon, O., and Wen, Y. 2010. An empirical study of the factors affecting social networking service use. Computers in Human Behavior. 26(2010), 254-263.
13. Bandura, A. 1993. Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning, Educational Psychologist. 28(2), 117-148.
14. Letcher, A. S., and Perlow, K. M. 2009. Community-based participatory research shows how a community initiative creates networks to improve well being, Am J Prev Med. 2009;37(6S1).
15. Kamal N., Fels, S., and Ho, K., 2010. Online social networks for personal informatics to promote positive health behavior, The Second ACM SIGMM Workshop on Social Media (WSM2010).
16. Deci, E. L., and Ryan, R. M. 1985. Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behavior. New York: Plenum.
17. Kang. Y. S., and Lee, H. 2010. Understanding the role of an IT artifact in online service continuance: An extended perspective of user satisfaction, Computers in Human Behavior. 26 (2010), 353-364.