Title :
What makes helpful online interactions: A study of health information evaluation
Author_Institution :
Lubar Sch. of Bus., Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Abstract :
The purpose of this research is to develop an in-depth understanding of how online interactions help health information evaluation on e-healthcare social network websites. Using information integration theory (IIT), we consider two types of interactions (personal interaction with online peers and para-social interaction with information management technology artifact) to address the question how online interactions facilitate user´s cognitive process of evaluating health information quality, which leads to suitable information adoption.
Keywords :
cognition; data integrity; health care; information retrieval; interactive systems; medical information systems; social networking (online); cognitive process; e-healthcare social network websites; health information evaluation; information integration theory; information management technology artifact; online interactions; Image sequences; Interpolation; Optical imaging; Signal resolution; Spatial resolution; Spatiotemporal phenomena; information evaluation; online interaction; personality;
Conference_Titel :
Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6788-4
DOI :
10.1109/PIC.2010.5687969
