@inproceedings{602344b2121c43d5945785cc78c00cfb,
title = "Online health communities",
abstract = "Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Online health communities raise difficult design challenges because of the wide variability of members. medical expertise, health literacy, and technology literacy, and the potential severity of problems due to misinformation. The importance of online health communities is evidenced by their popularity, as well as the significant impact they have on the lives of their members. This Special Interest Group (SIG) will explore current trends in online health communities and how the design and evaluation expertise of the CHI community can benefit and improve online health community research and development.",
keywords = "Design, Evaluation, Health care, Medicine, Online communities, Online health communities, Support groups, Virtual communities, e-learning",
author = "Lisa Neal and Kate Oakley and Gitte Lindgaard and David Kaufman and Leimeister, {Jan Marco} and Ted Selker",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1145/1240866.1240965",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1595936424",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "2129--2132",
booktitle = "SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts",
note = "25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 ; Conference date: 28-04-2007 Through 03-05-2007",
}