TY - GEN
T1 - Better health information exploration
AU - Pang, Patrick Cheong Iao
AU - Verspoor, Karin
AU - Chang, Shanton
AU - Pearce, Jon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/12/7
Y1 - 2015/12/7
N2 - The provision of health information has to be clear and appealing to users. Research has shown that health information seekers do not all have the same attributes, skills or needs. In any given health-related app or website, there is a need to provide tools for accessing information in ways that appeal to users. This is not always supported by current web technologies. As such, based on prior research on health information seeking behaviour and needs, we designed and created a proofof- concept website named Better Health Explorer to experiment on health information seekers. The pilot results show a positive effect on supporting and improving the experience of seekers with exploratory search behaviour.
AB - The provision of health information has to be clear and appealing to users. Research has shown that health information seekers do not all have the same attributes, skills or needs. In any given health-related app or website, there is a need to provide tools for accessing information in ways that appeal to users. This is not always supported by current web technologies. As such, based on prior research on health information seeking behaviour and needs, we designed and created a proofof- concept website named Better Health Explorer to experiment on health information seekers. The pilot results show a positive effect on supporting and improving the experience of seekers with exploratory search behaviour.
KW - Exploratory search
KW - Health information seeking behaviour
KW - Information exploration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84959259992&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2846439.2846444
DO - 10.1145/2846439.2846444
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959259992
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 10
EP - 15
BT - APCHIUX 2015 Proceedings - Asia Pacific HCI and UX Design Symposium 2015, held at the 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2015
A2 - Sari, Eunice
A2 - Wan Bt Ahmad, Wan Fatimah
A2 - Sari, Eunice
A2 - Duh, Henry
A2 - Awori, Kagonya
A2 - Brereton, Margot
A2 - Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - Asia Pacific HCI and UX Design Symposium, APCHIUX 2015
Y2 - 7 December 2015
ER -