Collective sensemaking in online health forums

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 3217-3226

  Mamykina, Lena ^a   Nakikj, Drashko ^a   Elhadad, Noemie ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective sensemaking; Diabetes; Online health communities

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

COMPUTING PLATFORM; HEALTH AND WELLNESS; MIXED METHOD; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITIES; PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATION; SENSEMAKING;

HEALTH;

EID: 84950976060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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