TY - GEN
T1 - Information-Seeking, Finding Identity
T2 - 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2022
AU - Patel, Dilisha
AU - Pendse, Sachin
AU - De Choudhury, Munmun
AU - Dsane, Sarah
AU - Kruzan, Kaylee Payne
AU - Kumar, Neha
AU - Singh, Aneesha
AU - Warner, Mark
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Owner/Author.
PY - 2022/11/8
Y1 - 2022/11/8
N2 - The identities we hold have a relationship with how we come to express and understand our experiences of illness. Language forms a means for us to express this understanding and experience to others, and receive information to clarify our own experiences. Having access to new information when undergoing an illness experience can be integral in supporting decision-making for one's health and well-being and change how we understand ourselves and our experience. Individuals are exposed to information about experiences of illness via search engines, social media, and other platforms online. This online health information may thus significantly influence the decision-making process. Research is needed to understand how the affordances of diverse online hubs for health information influence how people understand illness experiences and seek care. How people use the internet for information-seeking is often researched in individual health conditions. This workshop aims to explore the different methods researchers have used to understand online information-seeking journeys and to identify how the internet is, or can be, used to help users make sense of, and give meaning to, their experiences. Through convening a methodologically diverse set of researchers, we hope to generate a foundation and cohesive field of inquiry and community within HCI.
AB - The identities we hold have a relationship with how we come to express and understand our experiences of illness. Language forms a means for us to express this understanding and experience to others, and receive information to clarify our own experiences. Having access to new information when undergoing an illness experience can be integral in supporting decision-making for one's health and well-being and change how we understand ourselves and our experience. Individuals are exposed to information about experiences of illness via search engines, social media, and other platforms online. This online health information may thus significantly influence the decision-making process. Research is needed to understand how the affordances of diverse online hubs for health information influence how people understand illness experiences and seek care. How people use the internet for information-seeking is often researched in individual health conditions. This workshop aims to explore the different methods researchers have used to understand online information-seeking journeys and to identify how the internet is, or can be, used to help users make sense of, and give meaning to, their experiences. Through convening a methodologically diverse set of researchers, we hope to generate a foundation and cohesive field of inquiry and community within HCI.
KW - algorithmically mediated resources
KW - computer mediated communication
KW - health informatics
KW - help-seeking
KW - information-seeking
KW - internet search behavior
KW - online communities
KW - sense-making
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U2 - 10.1145/3500868.3560483
DO - 10.1145/3500868.3560483
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85143827657
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 263
EP - 266
BT - CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 8 November 2022 through 22 November 2022
ER -
