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HCSNet Workshop on Social Technology Applications for Health and MedicineDescriptionA great deal of research supports the belief that social interactions affect people’s health in various ways. Online communities have added a relatively new dimension to the lives of many people. This workshop aims to bring together a group of researchers and practitioners from medical, social and information technology communities to understand how social technologies might be used to support health and health initiatives: e.g. supporting people, their families and their communities in managing health; building and supporting communities of health workers and medical practitioners for improved communication and information sharing; allowing communities of health stakeholders (policy makers, practitioners, the public) to develop effective health-related policies and initiatives. We intend this workshop to be a place to foster communication across the relevant disciplines in order to design and develop effective tools and user experience to support online health communities. Issues of interest may include: Keynote Presentation: Patty Kostkova "Online Communities of Practise and Social Networking – What is the Potential?” “The impact of the Internet has largely been unforeseen, and it may have a revolutionary role in retooling the trillion-dollar health care industry in the United States” (June Forkner-Dunn 03). The amount of medical information available online and the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 and social networking tools, such as FaceBook and Twitter, has changed the way information are used by health care professionalsand in particular by general public. Is there a real potential for improving the delivery of healthcare or are these just new buzz words? This talk will address the issues surrounding the Internet delivery of medical knowledge to public and professionals, online communities for evidence-based quality assurance and the need for a personalisation and user profiling. Social networking with increasing amount of user-generated content provides highly accessible source of real-time information for early warning systems (such as infection outbreaks)and can allow better understanding of public concerns about their health. We will draw from the experience with the development and evaluation of the National electronic library of Infection (NeLI) www.neli.org.uk and international projects hosted by this infection portal accessed by Patty Kostkova is Head of the City eHealth Research Centre at the City University, London. Her research interests include e-learning, digital libraries and semantic web, Semantic Web and web services, health care ontologies, online communities of practise and the impact of Internet DLs on healthcare outcomes. Frank Vetere from the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne will also be giving a keynote presentation. Title and abstract: TBA Frank's research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design. He works with colleagues in the Interaction Design Group to explore and understand the use of emerging ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and to develop methods for designinguseful, usable and satisfying technology. He is Chief Investigator of a project investigating the use of social technologies to support young adults living with cancer, funded by the Peter Maccallum Cancer AudienceWe hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of researchers and practitioners from the medical, social and information technology communities working in areas such as health, social science, and online communities related to health. Event FormatThe workshop will be held over two days, on Monday September 21 and Tuesday September 22, 2009, at Melbourne Zoo. The workshop will include invited speakers (including a HCSNet-supported international presenter), presentations from participants and interested parties, workshopping and development of ideas, and plenty of time for discussion. Submission instructions are given below. Event OutcomesWe hope the workshop will help the community to build a collective understanding about online health and medical communities: from the health perspective, what support can a social network provide; from the social networking community, how can they provide that support; overall, how can such systems be deployed, evaluated and adopted. We also hope that the workshop will build bridges across the communities (health and social networks), and even generate a sustained interest and community around this area. We envisage this workshop to be the first of a series. Important Dates
Submission FormatSubmission deadline: Thursday 20th August 2009 Registration InformationPrior registration for the workshop is required. Non-members can join, free of charge, via the the HCSNet website http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/. Registration for the workshop is free for HCSNet members that have signed up to HCSNet 2 months in advance of the event. For non-HCSNet members and new members (under 2 months membership) the registration is $50 per day. For members and non-members please follow the link below to register. To pay for your registration please visit the UWS iPay website and follow the instructions below: Step 1: Visit https://ipay.uws.edu.au/ in a new window. Step 2: Review the iPay system information and click 'Continue'. Step 3: Find the 'HCSNet Workshops' option in the products list by scrolling down, select it and click 'Submit'. Step 4: Find and add the items listed in the table below to your order (using the 'Add to Order' button next to the item you want to add). Item name - HCSNet Workshops TOTAL COST $100 Step 5: When you have added all the items you need to add, confirm the total cost matches the cost in the table above and click 'Proceed to Purchase Order' to complete your registration purchase. Registration: Closes Monday 7th September 2009 Getting ThereThe workshop is being held in the Rainforest Room at Melbourne Zoo. Travel BursariesHCSNet will fund a number of travel grants to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Melbourne area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding as well as HCSNet membership 2 months prior to the event. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers (in HCSNet terms, those who have received their PhDs in the last fifteen years) will have priority. OrganisersDr Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University and NICTA
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